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The Kimi K3 countdown is on.

Weights for Moonshot AI’s latest model are set to drop at 11AM ET, according to Hugging Face. That clearly targets the US (it’s 11PM in China) and could have major implications for American AI. Moonshot rocked the industry when it claimed the model could go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost.

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