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New model: Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI)

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on 2026-07-16, a model that handles text, image, and video input with a 1049k-token context window and 131k maximum output tokens. No retirement date has been announced for Kimi K3, which is also referenced as moonshotai/kimi-k3 and alibaba/kimi-k3.

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New model: Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI)
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Moonshot AI · kimi-k3

Released2026-07-16 Retiresno announced date

kimi-k3text+image+video1049k context131k max out

also matches:

`kimi-k3`` moonshotai/kimi-k3``alibaba/kimi-k3`
[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/moonshotai-cn/kimi-k3)

Does your code call Kimi K3?

$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash

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source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article New model: GLM-5.2 (Google) Claude Sonnet 4 (EU) deprecated New model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek)
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