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Alex Kantrowitz

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I write @BigTechnology and host Big Technology Podcast. Contributor @CNBC. Author of ALWAYS DAY ONE. alex.kantrowitz@gmail.com

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I write @BigTechnology and host Big Technology Podcast. Contributor at CNBC. Author of ALWAYS DAY ONE.

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Everything You Need to Know About Kimi K3, the Latest Model From China to Shake Up AI

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By Alex Kantrowitz
| CMSWire Verified
Moonshot paused new subscriptions for its 2.8-trillion-parameter model outstripped GPU capacity, sparking fresh arguments over open-weight AI's performance. A 2.8-trillion-parameter contender: Moonshot's Kimi K3 is matching Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 on many benchmarks, and demand got so intense the company had to pause new subscriptions.
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AI Model Prices Are Falling At The Worst Moment For The US Frontier Labs

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By Alex Kantrowitz
| VKTR.com
The price war is on. What happens to OpenAI and Anthropic? Key Takeaways Lower-cost models from Meta, SpaceX and Moonshot could trigger an AI price war and compress frontier model margins. OpenAI and Anthropic may increasingly depend on their products, rather than their models alone, to generate profits. As frontier models become commoditized, the applications built on top of them could become AI's most valuable layer.
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Everything You Need to Know About Kimi K3, the Latest Model From China to Shake Up AI Original

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By Marty Swant Verified, Alex Kantrowitz
| Big Technology
Moonshot’s newly announced Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter multimodal model that’s performing on par with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 across many benchmarks — is already so popular that Moonshot temporarily paused new subscriptions Sunday. Kimi K3 is just one of a growing number of open-weight models making life interesting for OpenAI and Anthropic.
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