Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale

The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China's new Kimi K3 model.

With its trillions of parameters, it's just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it's cheaper.

But it's not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control. ...