Kimi K3 is now live

Re:Kimi K3 is now live by satvikpendem on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:36AM (#48935993)

Now, will they actually release the weights? Seems like Chinese model providers are slowly closing up, like Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 which did release weights (but not the biggest parameter count ones) and none for 3.7.

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Re:Kimi K3 is now live by j2j8 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:00PM (#48936346)

In the coming days

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Re:Kimi K3 is now live by linzhangrun on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:02PM (#48942936)

Qwen's team has been reorganized, and not open-sourcing also fits Alibaba's usual corporate style...

Other companies have not shown similar problems so far.

China has many government agencies and state-owned enterprises that need models which can be deployed locally. This is also part of "Xinchuang" (self-owned systems, self-owned hardware, etc. New government computers all run special Linux versions on domestic CPUs, and LLMs also need to be like this).

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Re:Kimi K3 is now live by satvikpendem on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:55AM (#49004725)

Looks like I spoke too soon. As a result of Kimi competition Qwen is releasing their 3.8 weights as well.

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Re:Kimi K3 is now live by ddxv on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:47AM (#48946741)

The blog post says they will release them July 27

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