The Discount Was the Product: Kimi K3 and the End of Cheap Chinese AI

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is genuinely frontier-adjacent: 2.8 trillion parameters, third place overall, first on frontend coding. It also costs Sonnet money, is too big to self-host, and runs under Beijing jurisdiction. The Chinese AI bargain had three legs. K3 keeps one.

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