Kimi K3
The world's first open 3T-class model
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Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
PH · launched Jul 17, 2026 · 447 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views
Niche: large language models · 191 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- Development
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Could you build this?
No Training a 3-trillion parameter frontier multimodal model requires tens of thousands of GPUs, massive compute budgets, and world-class AI research teams.
What it would actually take: Building a 3T-class foundation model requires tens of millions of dollars in compute, petabyte-scale curated multimodal datasets, and custom 3D distributed training parallelism (tensor, pipeline, and data parallel). Post-training demands advanced reasoning reinforcement learning (RLAIF/PPO) pipelines and high-throughput inference infrastructure. This is only feasible for well-capitalized frontier AI research labs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 62 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 63 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro · ph · 2026-10-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Kimi K2.7 Code · ph · 2026-06-13 · 349 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DenseK3 · github · 2026-09-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- A new engine to run Kimi K3 on a laptop · hn · 2026-07-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Kimi K2.6 · ph · 2026-04-21 · 341 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- awesome-kimi-k3-1-videos · github · 2026-10-24 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- kimi-cli.github.io · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- kimi-code-cli · github · 2026-09-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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