Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 17, 2026: a natively multimodal sparse MoE model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and a 1M-token context window. The company says it will publish the full weights by July 27, 2026.
Moonshot AI calls K3 the first open 3T-class model. Its BrowseComp score is 90.4, a vendor-reported figure (Moonshot AI announcement, July 17, 2026).
API pricing is $3.00 per million input tokens ($0.30 on cache hits) and $15.00 per million output tokens.
You can use K3 now in the Kimi apps, the Kimi Work desktop app, the Kimi Code CLI, and the Kimi API platform.
Source: Moonshot AI official announcement, July 17, 2026; reported by CNBC, July 17, 2026
