The latest version of the KM model series from Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is expected to perform on par with or even surpass Anthropic’s Opus 4.8. Financial Times reportedCiting unknown sources.
Moonshot’s kmi k2 model The open source AI has been well received in the market, ranking high on benchmarks and demonstrating capabilities that are not far behind the latest Frontier models.
The company’s upcoming release, called Kimi K3, is said to take a step forward in bridging the gap with closed-source models like OpenAI and Anthropic. The FT reports that Kimi K3 will be China’s largest open-weight AI model, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion, and will be released “in the coming days.”
Moonshot is also said to be raising new capital in a round that would value it at $31.5 billion. The company raised in May $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation.
Meanwhile news has come latest debate At the price of paying AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for their expensive, closed-source models. Industry leaders fear that AI labs will somehow be able to extract data collected by their customers using AI products like ChatGPT and Cloud.
are officers pitching their own products as alternatives, or Recommend to Companies take inexpensive open source models, such as those developed by DeepSeek, Z.AI, or Moonshot, and train them for their purposes. This argument has gained momentum, especially as China’s open models have narrowed the gap with their more expensive, marginal counterparts.
