# Moonshot AI — Kimi K3

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## Model

- Name: Kimi K3
- Company: Moonshot AI (moonshot.ai)
- Launch post: Kimi K3 — https://forck.live/items/4621-kimi-k3
- Announced: 2026-07-16
- Launch source: https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3
- Launch chosen by: a person, pinned in the model registry
- Released (per models.dev): 2026-07-16
- Listed (per OpenRouter): 2026-07-16
- Open weights: yes
- Posts about it: 1
- Outlets named under its posts: 0
- OpenRouter id: moonshotai/kimi-k3 — https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3
- Context window: 1-million-token context window — from https://forck.live/items/4621-kimi-k3

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### Moonshot AI — Kimi K3

- Company: Moonshot AI (moonshot.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-16
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4621-kimi-k3
- Subject: Kimi

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.

## Who reported on it

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## Where it runs

_Other companies' own announcements naming Kimi K3 and Moonshot AI — each is that company's post, not Moonshot AI's._

### Amazon — Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-18T16:52:01+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-kimi-k3-on-amazon-bedrock/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12223-introducing-kimi-k3-on-amazon-bedrock
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova

Open-weight models are changing the economics of building and deploying AI at scale. Rapid gains in intelligence and efficiency mean companies can match each workload with the right balance of capability, speed, and cost.

### GitHub — Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot

- Company: GitHub (github.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-06T17:27:25+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-06-kimi-k3-is-now-available-in-github-copilot
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3635-kimi-k3-is-now-available-in-github-copilot
- Subject: Copilot

GitHub announced general availability of Kimi K3, an open-weight model, in GitHub Copilot. The model offers frontier-level agentic coding abilities at a pricing of $3 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M output tokens, and $0.30 per 1M cached input tokens. It is hosted on Fireworks AI and available across multiple Copilot plans and tools. The rollout is temporarily paused due to a GitHub Actions incident but will resume.

### Together AI — Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide

- Company: Together AI (together.ai)
- Announced: 2026-08-01
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/kimi-k3-guide
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2325-kimi-k3-the-complete-developer-guide
- Subject: Inference platform

Together AI announces the availability of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with 1M context, hybrid attention (KDA), Attention Residuals, and Stable LatentMoE architecture, served via an OpenAI-compatible API.

### Together AI — Together AI announces strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to natively serve Kimi models

- Company: Together AI (together.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-29
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-announces-strategic-partnership-with-moonshot-ai-to-natively-serve-kimi-models
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2327-together-ai-announces-strategic-partnership-with-moonshot-ai-to-natively-serve
- Subject: Inference platform

Together AI announces a strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to serve Kimi models, with Together AI as the launch platform for Moonshot's open-weight model releases starting with Kimi K3.

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