# Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-open-weights-and-infrastructure-after-shaking-up-the-frontier-model-race/>
> Published: 2026-07-27 19:35:08+00:00

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and made parts of its infrastructure open source. The Chinese model nearly matches Western frontier models such as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on popular benchmarks, but independent tests found major gaps in cyber and math performance, possibly pointing to distillation.

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