--- title: Kimi K3 is the open-weight model everyone is actually... description: Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model that hit #1 trending on Hugging Face with 4,000+ likes faster than any previous model. Cognition benchmarked... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kimi-k3-is-the-open-weight-model-everyone-is-actually-excited-about-lrmtwauzm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kimi K3 is the open-weight model everyone is actually excited about | daily.dev og:description: Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model that hit #1 trending on Hugging Face with 4,000+ likes faster than any previous model. Cognition benchmarked... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kimi-k3-is-the-open-weight-model-everyone-is-actually-excited-about-lrmtwauzm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LrMtWauZM.png og:image:alt: Kimi K3 is the open-weight model everyone is actually excited about og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kimi K3 is the open-weight model everyone is actually excited about **[Trends](https://daily.dev/sources/trends)** · 2 min read · 30 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model that hit #1 trending on Hugging Face with 4,000+ likes faster than any previous model. Cognition benchmarked it on FrontierCode 1.1, calling it the first open-source model approaching frontier-level coding performance. It launched with immediate integrations in Devin Desktop, Devin CLI, and Vercel AI Gateway. Notable caveats: the primary benchmark comes from Cognition itself, and independent evals on non-coding tasks are still absent. ## Content Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3, and the reception has been unusually loud for an open-weight release. On Hugging Face, it hit #1 trending with 4,000+ likes faster than any previous model release, according to Clement Delangue. That's not a small thing — HF trending is a decent proxy for genuine developer interest, not just hype from the vendor's own Twitter account. The benchmark claim doing the rounds: Cognition tested it on FrontierCode 1.1 and says K3 is "the first open source model we tested that approaches frontier-level performance" on coding tasks. That's why it's already available in Devin Desktop and CLI. Vercel's Guillermo Rauch went further, calling it "the most powerful open-weight model in the world" — which is the kind of claim that usually ages badly, but he's backed it with actual infrastructure: K3 is live on Vercel AI Gateway with US-based inference and Zero-Data Retention agreements for anyone who needs them. The pattern here is interesting. Every major platform — Devin, Vercel, presumably more to follow — is integrating K3 within hours of release. That's not the usual open-weight story where a model drops, researchers poke at it for a week, and enterprise tooling catches up months later. This one landed with integrations already in place. What's still missing: independent evals outside of Cognition's own benchmark, and any real sense of how it holds up on tasks beyond coding. "Approaches frontier-level" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The community will stress-test that claim quickly — it always does. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@baz14** · 1 upvotes > Kimi K3 is better than Fable 5 (based on test results) and is not dependent on any country's government. We'll test it on real projects. **@abhishekfractal** · 1 upvotes > is there a free way to try it out.? **@ra\_jeeves** · 1 upvotes > Is there a cheap way to try it out? **@renehoehle** · 0 upvotes > I've made some tests and it's impressive. We talk here in generell about something thats rising over 3 - 4 years now. --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#kimi-k3](https://daily.dev/tags/kimi-k3), [#devin](https://daily.dev/tags/devin) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/kimi-k3-is-the-open-weight-model-everyone-is-actually-excited-about-lrmtwauzm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Kimi K3 is the open-weight model everyone is actually excited about","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kimi-k3-is-the-open-weight-model-everyone-is-actually-excited-about-lrmtwauzm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/kimi-k3-is-the-open-weight-model-everyone-is-actually-excited-about-lrmtwauzm"},"datePublished":"2026-07-27T15:45:07.686Z","dateModified":"2026-07-28T06:17:26.290Z","description":"Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model that hit #1 trending on Hugging Face with 4,000+ likes faster than any previous model. 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