China's Moonshot Kimi K3 outperforms Claude and GPT-5.6 on some benchmarks as an open model

Chinese AI company Moonshot has released Kimi K3, an open-source language model that beats Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on certain benchmarks. The release marks another milestone in China's rapidly advancing AI sector challenging Western frontier models. Being open-source, Kimi K3 is freely available for developers to adopt and modify.