Moonshot published Kimi K3's weights, license, and technical report on schedule — but the license is a custom revenue-tiered grant, not the MIT or Apache terms early reports claimed. What actually shipped, what the independent numbers say, and what the weights can now settle.
The White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3. Who's claiming what, on what evidence — and what's still unproven.
Moonshot AI paused new Kimi K3 subscriptions after launch demand hit its GPU ceiling — hours before Axios reported the Trump administration is weighing restrictions on advanced Chinese models. The capacity crunch, the market reaction, and the policy fight, up to the moment.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion parameters, native vision, and a 1M-token context window, live in the API now with open weights promised by July 27. Benchmarks, pricing, the self-hosting reality, and what still needs independent verification.