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First concrete third-party hosted price point since release. The 10:1 cached-input discount is the number that changes agent-loop economics, since replaying a long system prompt across turns is most of what agent loops do. No throughput claims and no head-to-head comparison in the release notes. (Telnyx)
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Security researcher Chaofan Shou reported agents driven by Kimi K3 surfacing 19 Redis zero-days in roughly 90 minutes, with a separate run producing a working Redis 8.8.0 RCE in 27 minutes. Findings span stock builds of 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4 and 8.8.0, chaining a stream consume...
Moonshot released it July 16: 2.8T parameters, MoE routing 896 experts with 16 active per token, native multimodal input, 1M-token context, with full open weights promised by July 27. Model overview here. It ships MXFP4 (4-bit float with per-block scaling) from day one, puttin...
Wafer.ai ran K3 at TP8 on a single MI355X node: 952 tok/s aggregate, 118 tok/s single-stream decode, ~13k tok/s steady-state prefill after fixing missing PyTorch sampling functions and AITER MLA prefill kernels via SGLang and ROCm. Against a two-node TP16 B200 deployment that'...
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 suppo...
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...
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna roughly 80%, from $1 to $0.20 per million input and $6 to $1.20 output. Anthropic priced Opus 5 at $5/$25 per million, half of Fable 5. The trigger is DeepSeek, Zhipu's GLM-5.2 and Moonshot's Kimi K3 landing 60-90% below US flagship pricing, with DoorDa...
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