Steven Gonsalvez

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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

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Kimi K3 model announcement, open frontier

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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence Today, we are introducing Kimi K3 — our most capable model. Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model built on our Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. While its overall performance still trails the most powerful proprietary models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, Kimi K3 demonstrated frontier-level performance across our evaluation suite, consistently

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Pricing equivalent to Anthropic Sonnet is justified by frontier-tier performance ranking (second only to Fable/Sol).

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