Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveils Kimi model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropic
Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested models.
The model beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 — models that sit just behind Anthropic and OpenAI’s leading-edge systems — on benchmarks including coding and general agents, according to Moonshot.
It’s China’s largest AI model so far, with 2.8 trillion parameters, referring to the size of its neural network.
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