Posted by vincent_s 9 hours ago
Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3
I should maybe also mention that I have not used the later models like Opus or Fable, so my opinion might be a bit outdated.
When I remember that this site even showed Kimi having the highest score at one point https://eqbench.com
(Not posting link coz paywall)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
- The blog post is explicitly saying that the model is open; that language was removed from the previously shared link
- It shows benchmarks
I've been playing around with it for the past few hours, and I think it's an amazing model. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between this and Fable in a blind test. The quota in the $100 Kimi Coding plan seems to roughly align with what I get from the $200 Anthropic plan when I primarily use Fable.
Wonder if they’ll open-source this and show how many tokens it cost.
This was only a month and a half delay after Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 spent 18 days in embargo, resurrected with a strict classifier that handicaps it
We’re at endgame
The sentiment has shifted far too much amongst the investor community and amongst enterprises who are the life-blood of the revenue streams of Anthropic and OAI.
Further releases of Chinese models that demonstrate the gap is not growing substantially is a huge problem. The spending will be called into question.
> Kimi K3 is the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters. It marks the latest step in Kimi's sustained push at the scaling frontier: for nine of the past twelve months, Kimi models have set the upper bound of open-model sizes.
Still sensible to mark proprietary for now though.
Ok you can host this model once. What if I want a dozen subagents? Ok you can host it 12 times at once. What if we go a whole week only using max 4 at a time? Etc etc. The limits imposed by self-hosting might be bearable for a variety of reasons, but it's going to be more expensive and less convenient/useful.