Meet Kimi K3, the newest Chinese AI model haunting Silicon Valley
Summary
Moonshot AI’s new open model is catching up to Anthropic and OpenAI, raising questions about the future of the AI race.
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why do we have openai and anthropic if open weight models are this good
— Daniel (@growing_daniel) July 16, 2026
people are underestimating what a big deal this is
— Jack Morris (@jxmnop) July 15, 2026
this is the ONLY open-weight model that's trained without distilling from OpenAI or Anthropic
• Kimi distills
• GLM distills
• Qwen distills
• Nemotron distills (Kimi & DeepSeek, which counts)
basically a fully different… https://t.co/lHRYEsPO0Z
And typical OpenAI/Anthropic are expected to be worth 1T$ while Chinese competitor like 20B$...
— GregTheAnalyst (@Analyst_G) July 17, 2026
What a hype. BTW : Today I've resigned from Claude and replaced it by Kimi.
Really impressed by Kimi K3 Max https://t.co/FCbelThmKk
Chinese models are 112x cheaper than Anthropic per million tokens.
— Shruti (@heyshrutimishra) July 16, 2026
Chamath laid it out on CNBC: a "barrel of intelligence" costs $56 from Anthropic, $26 from OpenAI, $1.50 from Meta, $1 from xAI and Google, and $0.50 from Chinese models.
That is not a pricing quirk. That is the… pic.twitter.com/g71WvrnsH3
From Anthropic’s Fable model on the economic, moral, ethical and legal opinion of distillation of Anthropic’s Fable model:
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) July 17, 2026
Whether it’s a moral problem is genuinely contested. The labs trained their models on the open internet — copyrighted books, articles, code — largely…