Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3 Open Weights – Frontier Model Democratization

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8T MoE open-weight model with 1M context and native vision, nearly matching Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol at 2-3x lower inference cost. Available on Vercel AI Gateway, ChatLLM, Telnyx Inference, Fireworks, and Microsoft with a fair license. This landmark release challenges proprietary frontier models and could accelerate consumer AI innovation.