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Kimi K3 releases and partnerships
Coverage of open weights, platform adoption and commercial partnership discussions.
Moonshot AI Seeks Up to 30% Revenue Share for Kimi K3 on US Cloud Platforms
A deal would mark one of the first revenue-sharing agreements between a Chinese AI company and major US cloud providers.
Read original →Moonshot in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google on Kimi K3 revenue sharing
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is in early talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over a revenue-sharing deal for its Kimi K3 model, seeking up to 30% of related revenue.
Read original →Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3, trained on Alibaba-supplied Nvidia chips, stirs US policy debate
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, trained on roughly 20,000 Nvidia Hopper chips supplied by Alibaba, topped a coding leaderboard and revived debate over US chip export controls.
Read original →Moonshot's Kimi K3 open-weight release draws US distillation and chip-export scrutiny
The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable and improperly obtaining Nvidia chips after the open-weight Kimi K3 release, prompting congressional inquiries.
Read original →Moonshot releases Kimi K3 open weights, escalating US-China dispute over AI distillation claims
Moonshot AI released the full weights of its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, intensifying a US-China dispute after the White House alleged distillation of Anthropic's Fable.
Read original →Moonshot's Kimi K3 Set for Open-Weights Release on July 27 as UK-US Cyber Tests Trail US Models
Moonshot AI plans to release Kimi K3's full open weights on July 27, 2026, while a joint UK-US evaluation finds the model scores 32% versus 76% for top US systems in cyber capability tests.
Read original →Microsoft weighs Moonshot's Kimi K3 for Copilot as open-source models gain benchmark ground
Microsoft is evaluating Moonshot AI's open-source Kimi K3 for some Copilot functions to cut inference costs; the model ranks second on the AA-Briefcase benchmark behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
Read original →Moonshot AI Pauses New Kimi K3 Subscriptions Amid GPU Strain
Moonshot AI paused new subscriptions to its Kimi K3 model after surging demand strained GPU capacity, the Chinese startup said in a Sunday post on X.
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