Kimi K3: A New Benchmark for Open-Weights Mixture-of-Experts

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What Changed The release of Kimi K3 represents a significant shift in the landscape of open-weights large language models. With a total parameter count of 2.8 trillion, Kimi K3 positions itself as a heavyweight contender in the frontier intelligence space. The most notable shift from the previous Kimi K2 model is the reported 2.5x improvement in overall scaling efficiency. This gain is not merely the result of increased compute, but rather a combination of architectural re