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Kimi K3 release date

Specs, benchmarks and changelog are on the Kimi K3 model card at TPS.

First uncensored version on Hugging Face: Uniboshi/Kimi-K3-Abliterated-V1, 15 days after release. 11 uncensored versions in total.

Released

Jul 16, 2026

What we know

Release drove Moonshot AI's ARR from $300M in June to over $1B in August 2026.

Spec

Params
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Active
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Context
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Weights
Modified MIT
Modality
text, code
Codename
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Every claim

3 from 2 sources
  • Kimi Research BlogFrom the labOct 23

    Moonshot's research index dates the Kimi K3 tech blog to 2026-07-16.

    points at Jul 16exact datesource
  • TechmemePressSep 11

    Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, which drove revenue to $1B ARR in August 2026.

    points at Aug 15monthsource
  • TechmemePressAug 18

    Harvey Tenet was trained using a version of Kimi K3 as its base model.

    no date givenno datesource
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