The launch of Kimi K3, one of China’s most powerful AI models to date, prompted a reckoning in the U.S. and triggered a regulatory storm.
Illustration by Luis Grañena
On the evening of July 24, the men and women of Moonshot AI enjoyed a rare night out on the town. At a Beijing night club they danced, drank and pumped their fists in the air. A large screen at the venue flashed exhortations such as “K3 Scale Up!”, “K4 Scale the F*** Up!” and “To the Moon!”.
They were celebrating Moonshot’s launch of Kimi K3, an open weight model that took the global developer community by storm. On several popular benchmarks, it approaches the intelligence and
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