Say what you want about these Chinese models but they sure create competition and urgency in the space.

Crap, the first open weight model that really feels out of reach when it comes to running it locally at home. :-(

I mean, it's hard not to be impressed by the Moonshot team. Absolutely great work.

how much would it cost to host it on AWS for example?

The big danger here is the gradual increase in open-weight subscription costs. I use open weight subscriptions, with lower-cost models for 80% of my tasks and GLM-5.2, Qwen 3.7-Max, Kimi-K2.6/2.7-Code for the 20% that need the most intelligence. That lets me maximize the rate-limit the subscription gives (rate limits per model are literally a price-limit-per-token/model). When new/more expensive open weights come in, providers phase out older/cheaper models. Over time we will either have to pay more, or use our subscriptions less.

It goes without saying, but if the open weights become as expensive as SOTA models, there's no point in using open weights. If nobody pays for open weights' development, the development dies out, and we're stuck with a US-controlled duopoly again. Which may be the biggest threat the world has seen from the US since nukes.

@dang, since the English blog post is now live:

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

Maybe we should update the link to it instead?

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