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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.
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ithome.com.tw — Moonshot AI發表Kimi K3，效能逼近Claude與GPT最新模型
"中國AI業者 Moonshot AI周四（7/16）發表最新模型Kimi K3 。該模型採用混合專家架構，總參數量達2.8兆，號稱是目前全球參數規模最大的開放模型"
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