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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 104 billion active parameters, native vision, and 1-million-token context window, is now open-source.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building or deploying large language models should track this as a competitive open alternative to proprietary frontier models.
- Watch out
- Performance trails Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The paper is a technical report; independent verification of claimed improvements over Kimi K2 is needed.
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- Kimi K3 on Fireworks: Frontier Intelligence You Can OwnFireworks AI
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