Moonshot AI plans to release full Kimi K3 model weights on 2026-07-27.

Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from ithome.com.tw · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.

Extracted JUL 17; approved JUL 18 at 0.55.

• Anthropic national security head Tarun Chhabra said the US holds a six-to-nine-month lead in frontier AI models over Chinese competitors.
• Chhabra accused Chinese labs of using unauthorised model 'distillation' to extract IP from US models, calling the practice adversarial.
• Anthropic is shutting down roughly millions of accounts per week that facilitate model distillation.
• Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on 2026-07-16, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.8 trillion total parameters, claimed as the world's largest open model.
• German research alliance Soofi-Team released open-source Mamba–Transformer MoE model Soofi S 30B-A3B, Europe's latest sovereign-AI project.