--- title: Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down... description: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launch exposed a growing industry problem: inference capacity can't keep up with demand. Within 48 hours of release, the company froze... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/moonshot-launched-kimi-k3-then-demand-shut-down-subscriptions-in-48-hours--p2dt0avd8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours. | daily.dev og:description: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launch exposed a growing industry problem: inference capacity can't keep up with demand. Within 48 hours of release, the company froze... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/moonshot-launched-kimi-k3-then-demand-shut-down-subscriptions-in-48-hours--p2dt0avd8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/p2dt0avD8.png og:image:alt: Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours. 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. # Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launch exposed a growing industry problem: inference capacity can't keep up with demand. Within 48 hours of release, the company froze new subscriptions after GPU resources were exhausted. At 2.8 trillion parameters, K3 is one of the largest open-weight models and performs competitively against GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 in coding benchmarks. The crunch is worsened for Chinese AI companies by US export controls limiting access to Nvidia's advanced chips, forcing reliance on older hardware and domestic alternatives. Analysts note that agentic workloads — which continuously generate and process tokens — consume far more GPU resources than simple chatbot queries, shifting the bottleneck from training compute to server memory. Token pricing pressure and massive data-center investment from Alibaba and ByteDance underscore how the AI infrastructure race is intensifying, with implications for developers who can no longer assume cheap, unlimited API access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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