The Kimi K3 Moment

Re:The Kimi K3 Moment by bel8 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:25AM (#48967077)

Continued how? I have switched most of my personal LLM coding to DeepSeek V4 Flash since it was launched.

And now 100% to a mix of K3 / DeepSeek V4 / MiMo 2.5.

It's nice not being called a terrorist just because I told it to reverse engineer something.

At work they are still hemorrhaging money to Western providers due to enterprise contracts but I foresee they won't renew for much longer. Specially of the upcoming final version of DeepSeek V4 proves to be Opus+ level.

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Re:The Kimi K3 Moment by Sammi on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:15AM (#48968406)

Anecdotes. Where's the data?

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Re:The Kimi K3 Moment by bel8 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:52AM (#48968706)

https://openrouter.ai/rankings#top-models

Chinese models dwarf USA models usage. And now there's a Fable/5.6 alternative. The gap widens.

Now go and ask for your GP poster for their data as well. Unless you're only interested in data that supports your bias ofc.

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Re:The Kimi K3 Moment by Sammi on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:47PM (#48969658)

I've seen that, but that's clearly a skewed dataset, right? People using openrouter will be those seeking other models. They are not the same kind of people who mostly just use gpt or claude.

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Re:The Kimi K3 Moment by bel8 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:58PM (#48970789)

I would agree if openrouter was the only provider of those.

But those LLMs are also offered outside openrouter.

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