Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · July 2026

Kimi K3

The largest open-weight model yet, at 2.8 trillion parameters.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1M-token context. It ranked first in Arena's frontend coding board with 1,679, ahead of Claude Fable 5.

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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)