Kimi K3

Kimi K3, a Chinese open-source large language model, has been open-sourced with frontier-level capability, extremely low pricing, and open model weights. It achieved rapid adoption on Hugging Face (4,000+ likes within 30 minutes, topped trending list) and ranks #1 on frontend benchmarks and #3 globally. Performance approaches Anthropic's Opus 5 with significantly lower cost than Claude series.