Re:Kimi K3 is now live
by simonw on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:20PM
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Wrote this up in a bit more detail on my blog, including some thoughts on what value the pelican benchmark can still provide here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/
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In regards to your post and the 16k reasoning output.
Try setting reasoning levels yourself manually. We see in the benchmarks that one of the graphs shows low, mid, max, so its clearly there.
I had the same issue with GLM 5.2 only offering high/max.
By playing around with openai compatible protocol, and setting the reasoning level from none, low ... high, xhigh and testing a flawed logic test.
It was easy to see that GLM had all the different reasoning levels. Low was like one line, medium did a few, high started to really expand, xhigh was a page or 2, max was MAX.
Very sure that you can force K3 into using less reasoning.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live
by artemisart on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:12PM
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Official API doc says only max effort level is currently supported. https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart#think...