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by elinear 16 days ago
Is K3 marked as a proprietary model because its weights have not been released yet? Were there indications from Moonshot that K3 would or would not be open weights?
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The blog post says it's going to be open, but I don't think the weights have been released yet:

> Kimi K3 is the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters. It marks the latest step in Kimi's sustained push at the scaling frontier: for nine of the past twelve months, Kimi models have set the upper bound of open-model sizes.

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

> The full model weights will be released by July 27, 2026.

Still sensible to mark proprietary for now though.

not much reason to think this won't happen except unconfirmed gossip, but I fully expect the next one to not be released. actually I won't be surprised if even this release was withheld and the announcement withdrawn.