# Moonshot AI — Kimi K3

- Company: Moonshot AI (moonshot.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Kimi
- Models affected: Kimi K3, Kimi K2, Claude Fable 5, GPT 5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, GPT 5.5
- Context window: 1-million-token context window
- Source: https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4621-kimi-k3

Moonshot AI introduces Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open model with native vision and a 1-million-token context window, available today on Kimi platforms and API, with weights to be released by July 2026. It demonstrates strong performance in coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, outperforming several other models in benchmarks while still trailing the most powerful proprietary models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3:

> 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.

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