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Moonshot AI·Kimi

Kimi K3

A 2.8T open MoE using KDA and Attention Residuals with native vision and a 1M context window.

CurrentReasoningCodingAgentMultimodalOpen weights
MODEL NUMBER025
Release date
2026-07-16
Organization
Moonshot AI
Family
Kimi
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Specifications

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Total parameters
2.8T
Architecture
MoE
Context
1M
Input modalities
Text · Image
Open weights
Yes
Status
Current
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Overview

Overview

A 2.8T open MoE using KDA and Attention Residuals with native vision and a 1M context window.

Why it mattered

K3 pushed open-model scale toward 3T parameters while unifying agent, vision, and long-context capabilities.

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Changes from predecessor

Compared with Kimi K2

PreviousKimi K21T · 128K ctx
CurrentKimi K32.8T · 1M ctx
New capabilities Native vision Long-horizon agent Reasoning
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Architecture & capabilities

Attention

Kimi Delta AttentionAttention Residuals

Key capabilities

Native visionLong-horizon agentCodingReasoning
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Release history

Announcement

Kimi K3 was announced at 2.8T parameters with native vision.

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Sources