Kimi K3latest from moonshotai
It helps people write complex computer code and perform knowledge-based tasks.
moonshotai’s newest large language model, able to hold about 1049k tokens of context (roughly 786k words) in one conversation, working across text and image->text. You reach it through an API or through tools built on it. Built for software developers and knowledge workers. moonshotai describes it as: “Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI.” source ↗
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85%
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“Kimi K3 Just ENDED Premium AI Subscriptions? (Small Businesses Win)”
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