{"id":529213,"date":"2026-07-16T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529213\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:44:08","slug":"moonshots-upcoming-kimi-3-is-expected-to-close-the-gap-with-anthropics-opus-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529213\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest iteration of Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi model series is expected to perform at par with or even surpass Anthropic\u2019s Opus 4.8, Financial Times reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

Moonshot\u2019s Kimi K2 models<\/a> have been received well in the open source AI market, ranking high on benchmarks and demonstrating capabilities that aren\u2019t too far behind the latest frontier models.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s upcoming release, called Kimi K3, is said to take this one step further to close the gap with closed-source models from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open-weight AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion, and will be released \u201cin the coming days.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moonshot is also said to be raising fresh capital in a round that would valuate it at $31.5 billion. The company in May raised $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The news comes amid a fresh debate<\/a> on the value of paying AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for their expensive, closed-source models. Industry leaders fear that AI labs will somehow manage to extract the data their clients submit for use with their AI products like ChatGPT and Claude. <\/p>\n

Executives are pitching<\/a> their own products as alternatives, or recommending<\/a> companies take cheaper open source models, like those developed by DeepSeek, Z.ai, or Moonshot, and train them for their own purposes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest iteration of Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi model series is expected to perform at par…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6166,363,364,607,5941,195676,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-529213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-in-brief","tag-moonshot","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}