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Kimi K3
Assistant from Moonshot AI with a very long context window, aimed at coding and research tasks.
first seen 17 Jul 2026
28mentions
19creators
100%organic
Who actually uses Kimi K3
From tracked mentions across YouTube, podcasts, X and newsletters. Active = mentioned in the last 120 days.
- Fireship4.3M reach · since 22 Jul 20261×
- Tech With Tim2.1M reach · since 18 Aug 20261×
- sentdex1.4M reach · since 20 Jul 20261×
- Matt Wolfe1.0M reach · since 31 Jul 20261×
- Vaibhav Sisinty878k reach · since 20 Jul 20262×
- Nishant Chahar590k reach · since 16 Oct 20261×
- Nick Saraev576k reach · since 16 Jul 20262×
- Theo Browne575k reach · since 26 Jul 20261×
- NeuralNine488k reach · since 27 Jul 20261×
- Wes Roth334k reach · since 7 Aug 20261×
- bycloud238k reach · since 29 Jul 20261×
- Stefan 3D AI203k reach · since 25 Jul 20265×
- King Charles Tv177k reach · since 11 Aug 20261×
- Mikey No Code174k reach · since 15 Sept 20261×
- IndyDevDan153k reach · since 27 Jul 20263×
- DevOps Toolbox137k reach · since 28 Sept 20262×
- CodeHead104k reach · since 21 Jul 20261×
- Developers Digest65k reach · since 17 Jul 20261×
The receipts
Verbatim quotes, ≤120 characters, linked to the second they were said.
On par with the biggest models and a fraction of the costs - Kimi K3 is 🔥
How is Kimi K3 this CHEAP?!
In this video, I show you how to build your first app with Kimi K3 for free
GLM 5.3 outperforming Kimi K3 where the index says otherwise
the real power unlocks when you plug an open-source model like Kimi K3 directly into it.
GLM 5.3 especially: three times fewer parameters than Kimi K3 and it still comes out ahead.
(Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3 and more)
Kimi K3 is the largest open-source AI model ever released
I’m testing Kimi K3 in my next videos to see how it performs on real tasks.
Kimi K3 CRUSHED Fable — the open-source model released two weeks before this hack
including GPT 5.6, Fable 5, Opus 5, Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, GLM 5.2, and Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Open source finally has a real player in Kimi K3
Open the AI Playground and select "Kimi K3" from the model selector.
Moonshot AI's latest Kimi K3 just topped the LLM leaderboard, coming in as the 3rd best model in the world, while being
Kimi K3 Blog Post
Open weight models are the escape hatch. Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, Minimax, Qwen.
Kimi K3 is so good it has frontier AI labs and the U.S. government publicly crashing out
Kimi K3: The New King of 3D Design?
Kimi K3 launched last week, went straight to the top of the leaderboards — and the place it leads hardest is 3D.
models like Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8 and GLM are beating America's PAID AI like Claude and ChatGPT
Moonshot just released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight monster
➡️ Higgsfield: ➡️ Kimi
Hooking Kimi K3 To Hermes Agent
Kimi K3 is here. China's new free, open source AI model is beating ChatGPT 5.6 and Claude Fable 5 in some tests
Talking DeepSeek DSpark / DeepSeek V4 Flash, Kimi K3, GPT-5.6, model speed
Kimi K3 Released: 3T Params, 1M Context, Agentic Benchmarks, Pricing & Demos
Title: I Tested Kimi K3 So You Don't Have To...
Is there a newer or better tool?
No public switch source is available here for a move away from Kimi K3. This does not establish that nobody switched. Other tracked tools in AI Assistants are listed below.
FAQ
Do creators actually use Kimi K3, or is it sponsored?+
Of 28 tracked Kimi K3 mentions with receipts, 28 are organic (genuine workflow use) — 100% organic. Every mention is labelled by source, and payment never changes the ranking.