Tiezhen WANG(@Xianbao_QIAN):Chinese models' "Journey to the west" has honestly just began. K3 is a great model. You can see that from the pricing strategy too. Kimi K3 is about 3-4x more expensive compared to K2.6 This is probably the most expensive Chinese models so far, while still being 3-4x cheaper compared to Fable. This pricing increase comes with the cost of serving a larger model, but also from the confidence of their capabilities. And there are rumors that K3 will be open sourced

2026.07.16 19:07

Chinese models' "Journey to the west" has honestly just began. K3 is a great model. You can see that from the pricing strategy too. Kimi K3 is about 3-4x more expensive compared to K2.6 This is probably the most expensive Chinese models so far, while still being 3-4x cheaper compared to Fable. This pricing increase comes with the cost of serving a larger model, but also from the confidence of their capabilities. And there are rumors that K3 will be open sourced - Let's pray for that.

Kimi.ai@Kimi_Moonshot

2026.07.16 18:58

Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence 🔹 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal 🔹 Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts 🔹 Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost 🔹 Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows Kimi K3 is now live on on Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API. Open Weights by July 27, 2026. 🔗 API: 🔗 Tech blog: