Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 as open weights
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Kimi K3 released as open weights — 2.8T total / 104B active, 69 KDA layers + 24 Gated MLA layers, a context of 1,048,576. Its own Kimi K3 License
Why it matters
An open-weight model in the 3-trillion-parameter class. A prime example of the pattern in which scale grows while licenses narrow
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Officialhuggingface.cohttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
On the map — ⑨ Open-Weight Lineage line
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In the model family tree — Kimi family · 8 versions
- Earlier versionKimi K2.7-Code
- This recordKimi K3
- Later versionThe latest version in this branch