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Moonshot's Kimi 3 Aims to Rival Anthropic's Opus 4.8

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechCrunch AI ·

Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 model, with 2-3 trillion parameters, is expected to be China's largest open AI model. The FT reports it aims to close the performance gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8. This marks a significant step in China's open-source AI capabilities.

Meridian48 take
Claims of closing the gap with a leading proprietary model should be taken with caution until independent benchmarks are released.
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