--- title: Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence | daily.dev description: Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model — the first in the 3T-class — featuring native multimodality, a 1-million-token context... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lmuaeljpk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence | daily.dev og:description: Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model — the first in the 3T-class — featuring native multimodality, a 1-million-token context... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/lmuaeljpk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lMuAelJPK.png og:image:alt: Post cover image 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 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence **[nerdalytics](https://daily.dev/sources/jcwojcedqzpspqbvk73nc)** · [@nerdalytics](https://daily.dev/nerdalytics) · 13 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model — the first in the 3T-class — featuring native multimodality, a 1-million-token context window, and a Mixture-of-Experts architecture activating 16 of 896 experts. Built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, it achieves approximately 2.5× better scaling efficiency than its predecessor. Kimi K3 targets long-horizon coding (kernel optimization, GPU compiler development, chip design), knowledge work (multi-agent research, interactive visualizations), and agentic tasks. It trails Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol overall but outperforms other open models across evaluated benchmarks. The model is available via Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API ($0.30–$15.00/MTok), with full weights to be released by July 27, 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@geekluffy** · 4 upvotes > Great to see Moonshot pushing architectural innovations like kimi delta attention (KDA) and attention residuals instead of just throwing more compute at vanilla transformers. A 2.5x scaling efficiency improvement over K2 is a huge win for open weights **@fabianletsch** · 3 upvotes > The website of course depicts this as the best thing ever, but if this actually holds true, then this is really impressive work by them! --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#multimodal](https://daily.dev/tags/multimodal), [#mixture-of-experts](https://daily.dev/tags/mixture-of-experts), [#kimi](https://daily.dev/tags/kimi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/lmuaeljpk) ```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":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/lmuaeljpk","headline":"Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence","text":"Shared: Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/lmuaeljpk","datePublished":"2026-07-16T19:30:46.733Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:49:38.260Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"nerdalytics","url":"https://daily.dev/nerdalytics","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/97166791?v=4","description":"Husband. 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