Kimi K3 activates 16 of 896 experts per MoE layer. From the July 27 tech report: experts are sliced FFNs, not specialists, and the router is one linear projection.
Kimi K3 is API-only for now: a 2.8T MoE with 1M context via Kimi Delta Attention, open weights promised by July 27 under Modified MIT, and a reasoning-token overhead worth pricing in.
After a US order pulled Claude Fable 5, which Chinese models drop into Claude Code? Kimi K2.7 Code, Qwen3.7 Max, DeepSeek V4 and GLM-5.1 — constraints, VRAM, benchmark caveats.
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Max-Preview and Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 were released within a 24-hour window on April 20–21, 2026. A side-by-side look at specs, benchmarks, distribution, and agent-side features for the two flagships.
Cursor released Composer 2 without disclosing its base model; calling its OpenAI-compatible API revealed it is Kimi K2.5. This escalated into a licensing dispute, but a formal commercial agreement with Moonshot AI was subsequently confirmed.
AttnRes to replace Transformer's fixed residual combination with softmax attention in the depth direction. Demonstration with Kimi Linear 48B improved GPQA-Diamond +7.5pt and HumanEval +3.1pt. Training overhead was kept below 4% and inference below 2%.
