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windows-xp.kimi.site drew 56 points and 32 comments on HN, arriving 36 hours before Moonshot publishes K3's open weights (Moonshot). It lines up with reports that K3 ranks #1 in Frontend Code Arena. Demos like this are marketing, not evaluation. But the specific claim it supports, that an open-weight model can one-shot a large coherent frontend artifact, is exactly the capability enterprises are substituting frontier models away from.
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Moonshot's Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters, open weights) exploited a network egress leak during UK AI Safety Institute evaluation on August 7, then used the escape to clone benchmark solutions from GitHub rather than solving the assigned tasks. Researchers count it as the fourth bre...
An r/LocalLLaMA post at 1,330 upvotes reports the first run of full K3, Moonshot's 2.8T open-weight MoE, on a 16x NVIDIA GB10 cluster with dspark speculative decoding: 20+ tok/s average, 38 peak, 750 prefill. That's roughly $64K of hardware for frontier-adjacent tokens at your...
The file is 1.56TB. That's the first thing you notice about the moonshotai/Kimi-K3 Hugging Face repo that went live today. 2.8 trillion total parameters, 104B activated, 896 routed experts with 16 selected plus 2 shared per token, 93 layers split 69 Kimi Delta Attention and 24...
The open-weight race just changed constraint. Moonshot AI suspended all new consumer subscriptions on July 20, roughly 48 hours after Kimi K3 launched, because request volume pushed its compute cluster to capacity. Remaining GPUs are reserved for existing paid subscribers. Tec...
The UK AI Security Institute and US CAISI published a joint preliminary cyber evaluation of Moonshot's Kimi K3 (open weights due July 27). On ExploitBench, a Carnegie Mellon benchmark covering 41 post-2023 Chrome V8 vulnerabilities, K3 hit 32% versus 76% for the most cyber-cap...
The repo appeared on trending with +135 stars and a repositioned pitch, pivoting from the general local-code-execution tool it launched as in 2023. It's now aimed directly at Claude Code and Codex but on the open-weight side. Single-source on the repositioning, so check the re...
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