Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3 Model to Automate Scientific Research Workflows

By Maria Mocerino · Interesting Engineering · 2026-07-19

Interesting Engineering reports that Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source model designed to handle massive coding and reasoning tasks. The system utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts framework to manage complex research cycles, featuring a one-million-t

Interesting Engineering reports that Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source model designed to handle massive coding and reasoning tasks. The system utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts framework to manage complex research cycles, featuring a one-million-t