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Moonshot AI Drops 2.8T-Parameter Kimi K3, TSMC Posts Record Earnings

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with a 1M token context window, priced at $3/M input tokens. TSMC reported record quarterly earnings, confirming accelerating AI hardware buildout. The Model Context Protocol published its biggest revision, moving to a stateless design.

Meridian48 take
Kimi K3's open-weight release and TSMC's earnings underscore that the AI arms race is intensifying on both software and hardware fronts, but Moonshot's distillation dispute with Anthropic could set precedent for open-weight labs.
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