Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a massive open-weight model featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window. Capable of processing text and images, Kimi K3 has delivered frontier-level results in Arena blind testing, alarming Silicon Valley and Washington. This advancement suggests China is rapidly erasing the American lead in advanced AI. Meanwhile, separate reports indicate a researcher successfully poisoned an open-weight AI model for under $100, highlighting critical verification gaps in model trust.