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The first open 3-trillion-class model is released in full

development2026-07-29

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Moonshot AI released the full Kimi K3 weights, the first open 3-trillion-class model, with 2.8 trillion parameters picking 16 of 896 experts, vision, a million-token context and 99,000 downloads, bringing sixfold sales growth and a $50 billion valuation chase.

Reported metric: 2.8T params / 99,000 downloads

Reporting date: 2026-07-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Moonshot AI

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A leader pitches free models to the global south as an Android play

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The first open 3-trillion-class model is released in full
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Reporting date: 2026-07-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-29-the-first-open-three-trillion-class-model
Claim: Moonshot AI released the full Kimi K3 weights, the first open 3-trillion-class model, with 2.8 trillion parameters picking 16 of 896 experts, vision, a million-token context and 99,000 downloads, bringing sixfold sales growth and a $50 billion valuation chase.
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- Welcome to July 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-29-2026
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