Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a flagship open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters for long-horizon coding and agentic work. Benchmarks place it alongside top closed-source models, undercutting American competitors on price. While highly capable, Kimi K3 requires significant hardware for scale and is slower than some rivals. To simplify access across various platforms like Z.ai and DeepSeek, LLM Gateway provides a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for managing multiple models and billing.