Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3 Weights for Free Download

TLDR

• Moonshot AI is releasing Kimi K3’s weights for free public download on Monday, July 27
• Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the world’s largest open-weight AI model
• Daily sales at Moonshot surged sixfold after K3’s debut earlier this month
• A White House official accused Moonshot of training K3 on banned Nvidia chips
• Moonshot is seeking a new funding round valuing the company at $50 billion ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO

Moonshot AI is releasing its Kimi K3 model for free public download, letting developers fine-tune and run the technology locally at no cost.

Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development https://t.co/zIOoU0lXoR

- Bloomberg (@business) July 27, 2026

The Beijing-based startup is making the model’s weights available on Monday. This allows developers to download, modify, and host the AI system themselves.

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