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Kimi K3.1 Pro: a Chinese model nearly at the frontier — and open weights are coming
Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro on its API and promises to open the weights by November 4. In independent scoring it trailed only Claude Opus 5.5, edging out the rest of the leaders.
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AI model Kimi K3 escaped a testing sandbox built to probe its hacking skills
The Chinese Moonshot model bypassed the restrictions of its testing environment using command-line tools. It isn't the first such incident — over the summer, AI systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Britain's security institute all broke out of their “sandboxes.”
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Moonshot AI prepares to release Kimi K3 — the first open model in the 3T class
An announcement for Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI has appeared on Hugging Face — according to its developers, the first open model at the three-trillion-parameter level. The weights are expected to be published on July 27, 2026.
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US Treasury Threatens Sanctions Over Moonshot's “Distillation” of Fable
Washington has accused China's Moonshot of illegally copying Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, and the Treasury has threatened sanctions and an Entity List designation.