The company is positioning its Kimi K3 model for adoption well beyond its own platform. Just three days after the Chinese developer Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 on July 17, it stopped accepting new subscriptions. In benchmarks published by Moonshot, Kimi K3 generally lands ahead of OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 but behind Claude Fable 5 and, on some tests, GPT-5.6 Sol. These results place Kimi K3 among the strongest modern AI systems without showing that it has surpassed the leading American models. “New open models may come from those big players and not from Alibaba or the Kimi people,” he says.