It's important we now have a recap to the opus 4.8 release where we were threatened with ID verification as "these models become more powerful" and had to pass "verification" to gain full access to the capabilities without having random "cyber" refusals.

Looks like open models being months behind is a thing of the past. Now more like weeks.

That's a more than 2x jump in parameter count. I know it's not a measure of quality by itself, but it will be interesting how it "scales". Bust it looks like they're gonna be competing with the big boys now, pricing also approaches Gpt 5.6 Terra

Open source Fable/Sol challenger! Interesting to do a release product-first.

https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart

But, it's not open models.

I hope this means they stop downgrading my fable requests

I'll switch to this for now.

I'm expecting Anthropics reply soon though.

It would be trivial for them to distill Mythos.

Why do most LLMs insist on a login, even for a free trial?

I entered a question to try it, but as soon as I hit enter it wants my phone number for a login. No thanks.

Traditional narrative is that you need tons of traces of actual execution to post-train and get models right. Nobody seems to use Kimi API from Moonshot, I bet everybody is using them on neoclouds/inference providers like Together, Nebius, Fireworks etc. where unlikely they will get traces (in fact, thats the whole promise of these inf providers). How are Kimi models improving so quickly? Is this just distillation (though Sol/Fable just came out so I find it hard to believe)