Kimi K3 and the Chinese Model Frontier

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is one of the largest open-weight models ever released: 2.8 trillion parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture activating roughly 104 billion per token, built on Delta Attention (KDA) and a LatentMoE framework that selects 16 of 896 experts per forward pass. Moonshot's reported benchmarks a…