kimi-k3

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China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min

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China's Kimi K3 was reportedly trained on smuggled NVIDIA Blackwell chips — around both countries' controls

Moonshot AI's frontier model, the biggest open-weight model ever, was allegedly trained on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware acquired around both US export controls and China's own import restrictions. The compute-smuggling story behind the model.

Lena Fischer · Jul 30 · 9 min

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Kimi K3 just topped the coding leaderboard. here's the model you can actually run on one GPU that gets you most of the way

The best open coding model in the world needs a datacenter to run. The best coding model you can run on a single 24GB card is a different name entirely — and it's shockingly close for real work.

Lena Fischer · Jul 24 · 9 min

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the biggest open AI model ever drops this week. you can download all 1.4 terabytes — you just can't run it

Kimi K3's open weights land July 27. It's genuinely great and genuinely free. It also needs about 1.4TB of memory to load, which means the download is the easy part. Here's the real hardware math — and the far smaller model that gets you most of the way.

Lena Fischer · Jul 23 · 9 min