“Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8. In theory, it’s exactly the kind of release that should bring cheaper intelligence to everyone and help ease AI's compute crunch. But in practice, the scenario is playing out much differently.”
The Chinese AI lab just released Kimi K3. It’s a massive 2.8 trillion parameter model with native vision and a 1 million token context window. The lab claims it only trails Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, meaning it beats every other model they tested. It even beats Fable 5 on the Frontend Code Arena, where human judge






