8 Weeks After Kimi K3 Launch, Moonshot AI is Filing Police Reports
In July, Moonshot AI released the world's largest free artificial intelligence (AI) model. Eight weeks later, the company is filing police reports.
Kimi K3 arrived on July 16. Anyone could download it and run it. In an industry that guards its best work, that was rare. But then the servers buckled.
A Launch That Ate Its Own Computers
Four days in, Moonshot stopped selling new subscriptions. Paying members kept their seats as everyone else waited.
"Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity," the team said in a statement.
That was the loudest the company would be all summer.
On September 11, Moonshot pushed a smaller model, K2.8 Preview, across its coding platform. Read the changelog closely and something odd appears. Some K3 requests now get answered by the smaller model instead.
