Deirdre Bosa(@dee_bosa):lots of folks want Kimi K3 to be a distillation story.... distillation may be part of it but it doesn’t explain how Chinese AI labs keep designing, training, and shipping models this good, this quickly. "they copied" is not an AI strategy... time to build an American open source one

2026.07.17 21:03

lots of folks want Kimi K3 to be a distillation story.... distillation may be part of it but it doesn’t explain how Chinese AI labs keep designing, training, and shipping models this good, this quickly. "they copied" is not an AI strategy... time to build an American open source one

Arena.ai@arena

2026.07.16 18:33

Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1# in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5. This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18# -> #1#). In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1# in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Simulations, and Content Creation Tools, landing #2# only in Gaming behind Fable 5. The full model weights will be released by July 27. Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this major milestone!