Kimi K3: China's largest open-source AI model

AI Quake China Counters the AI Dominance of the USA with the Moonshot System

2026-07-20 Source: dpa | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

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Without Kimi, it doesn't work anymore? The Chinese AI expert Moonshot is currently shaking up the Western language model industry with the new system "Kimi K3." Especially the players from the USA are now worried about potential market losses...(Image: Moonshot AI) — Without Kimi, it doesn't work anymore? The Chinese AI expert Moonshot is currently shaking up the Western language model industry with the new system "Kimi K3." Especially the players from the USA are now worried about potential market losses...
(Image: Moonshot AI)

The Alibaba-supported start-up Moonshot AI has now presented its new language model "Kimi K3," according to dpa reports. According to the Chinese company, it rivals the top models of U.S. competitors OpenAI and Anthropic. The launch of "Kimi K3" is reportedly causing a stir in the industry and fueling fears in the U.S. of losing the technological lead it has achieved. With 2.8 trillion parameters, "Kimi K3" is the world's largest "open-source" AI model to date. The number of parameters is considered an indicator of the performance and complexity of such a system. The model is expected to be fully accessible to developers worldwide by the end of July 2026.

The World's Largest Open AI System

During the presentation, Moonshot AI also pointed to test results indicating that "Kimi K3" surpasses models like Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and GPT 5.5 from OpenAI, at least in programming tasks and complex applications. However, it should be noted that these test results have not been independently validated. At the same time, Moonshot AI admitted that the new system overall still slightly lags behind the absolute, proprietary U.S. top models, such as Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's brand-new GPT-5.6 Sol. Yet, the gap is shrinking rapidly. Industry experts are already drawing parallels to the so-called "Deep Seek" moment, when a Chinese AI model for the first time also shook the U.S. frontrunners in the stock market early last year. Since then, Chinese systems of this kind have gained importance. This is also attributed to their openness and more cost-effective operation.

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