AI - OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna chat is free and Kimi K3 available pretty much everywhere 🤣
I really did not want AI related news two days in a row, but here we are… 🤣
Kimi K3 is now available pretty much everywhere 🤣
For me the important one is VSCode so here it is:
And the GitHub Copilot tweet as well:
What is Kimi K3?
It is Moonshot AI’s new flagship model, packing 2.8 trillion parameters, native visual understanding, and a one-million-token context window. Moonshot describes it as the first open-weight model in the three-trillion-parameter class.
It is aimed squarely at long-running agentic work, including navigating large codebases, coordinating terminal tools, conducting knowledge work, and completing engineering tasks with limited human supervision.
Kimi K3 is not simply “another larger model”. Its combination of scale, sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture, and long context window could have significant implications for real-world engineering and knowledge work.
Kimi K3 puts further pressure on the big proprietary AI companies by showing how closely an open-weight model can compete with their “frontier” offerings. The model itself is worth watching, but the broader trend towards powerful open-weight AI is a lot more significant 😊
Who is Moonshot AI?
Moonshot AI is the Beijing-based artificial-intelligence company behind Kimi, including the Kimi chatbot, coding tools, API platform, and Kimi K3 model. It is roughly comparable in role to OpenAI behind ChatGPT or Anthropic behind Claude, etc. 😉
It is certainly interesting how China is trying to disrupt the AI space with their own models and open-weight models at that! 😊
GPT-5.6 Luna is now free for everyone
Here is the tweet from Sam Altman:
The official OpenAI tweet:
What they said:
GPT-5.6 Sol now powers both Instant and deep reasoning for Plus & Pro users, delivering more factual, focused responses.
Free & Go users get unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna starting tomorrow.
Clearly this is a strategic move by OpenAI to compete with the open-weight models especially the ones from China 🤣 At the end of the day, it is yet another proof that competition is good for consumers as it pushes companies to lower prices, innovate, and generally make things more useful 😊
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