Kimi K3 might be the most powerful open AI model I've seen!
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What you're seeing is from Kimi K3, a
model from Moonshot AI that's open
source and open weight, which means you
could download it onto your own PC. That
is if you can handle 2.8 trillion
parameters. It has a 1 million token
context window, which is massive, and I
want to explore exactly what makes it
special. Let's find out. When I jumped
on Twitter, I saw their official blog
post here as well as other things like
this benchmark showcasing how Kimi K3 is
essentially beating Fable 5 as well as
ChatGPT 5.6 on the front-end code arena.
Heading further down, I can see that
some people like Theo are already pretty
excited to see how it goes in terms of
3D modeling as well as orchestration,
which I'm excited to test out, too.
People are also discovering that it's a
lot cheaper compared to things like
Fable and ChatGPT, which have a
ridiculous pricing when it comes to
token use, and they just seem to use a
lot more tokens now. Here's the official
blog post for Kimi K3, and there's a lot
of information here if you want to learn
more about it, but I'll give you some of
the highlights. Like here are all the
benchmarks for things like coding and
general agent use. And usually Kimi K3
is now in the top three position. It's
even coming in first place for some of
these benchmarks beating out ChatGPT
Soul as well as Fable 5. And I'm really
interested to test this out in the real
world with my own examples. If we scroll
down further, we can actually see that
its token use is a lot more efficient.
Jumping onto the pricing, we can see
that 1 million tokens per input is $3,
and 1 million per output is $15. Now, if
we compare this to something like Fable,
there's going to be a huge three to five
x difference in terms of pricing that
you'll actually be able to afford,
especially when you're doing a
long-running tasks like people are now
with these one props that create entire
games or systems or startups. But here
you can see some graphs of that, and one
of the issues I'm often having is when
I'm using Fable 5, I often run out of
that 4-hour limit, and I swap to GPT
5.6, which then I run out of that limit.
So, having a model that actually can
keep on running throughout the whole day
would be really useful to me. If you
want to start using it, it's already
available here inside of Kimi code, Kimi
work, Kimi the website, as well as our
API. And when it comes to open source
and open weights, I'm pretty sure it's
the biggest model at 2.8 trillion
parameters. We have the largest behind
it being DeepSeek at 1.6 trillion.
Actually, I double-checked this on
Google, and as far as Google AI says, it
is the largest, which is absolutely
insane. The massive leapfrog it has over
the previous models to a point where I
really wonder just how many Mac minis is
required to be able to run this thing.
There is some more information here in
terms of how it actually operates under
the hood. What I'm personally interested
in is how it'll go for coding, but as a
part of that, I've heard that one of the
greater features that it's now capable
of doing is game dev and 3D design
because it's meant to have very strong
3D reasoning, coding, and vision
capabilities. And there are some great
examples to showcase this. Let's have a
look at these. The first example from
Kimi is this one here that looks like
something out of a Red Dead Redemption,
an open world with horse riding, rain,
water, trees, and much more. What it's
doing under the hood is using a
combination of vision and a loop, as
well as coding, to continuously check
screenshots and essentially build an
array on a game to get it to a point
where it creates something like this
Cyberpunk Spider-Man-like game. And it's
because these models are larger and
better with vision that it can do this.
Here's another example from someone on
Twitter who replicated this 3D game that
pulls inspiration from Paper Mario. And
it's doing a lot from not only flipping
the character, but even making the trees
transparent when the camera's too close.
Higgsfield AI have made their own
comparison between GPT 5.6 Soul and Kimi
K3 for a video generated with Seed Dance
2. And you decide which you think is
better based on the same prompt
essentially generated by each model.
Bridge Bench also has this a lava lamp
test, which Kimi K3 did probably one of
the best jobs I've seen so far, even
beating the example from Claude Fable 5.
Kimik A3 is also pretty good at creating
infographic style reports and
presentations. Not something I do as
often, but what I really am excited to
see is how it goes at creating
dashboards and UI elements because the
examples shown were really interesting,
such as resizable cards, bento grids, as
well as statistics that have their own
unique look and feel because I've been
finding the results from Fable and 5.6
to all look the same. Another point of
note is that it's pretty good at video
editing, from motion design to animation
to video editing in general. You see,
there aren't really any extensions where
AI is jumping into Adobe Premiere or
DaVinci Resolve and really helping you
with the process. I'd love to see where
this goes because right now in coding,
we have agents that plan, generate, and
even test the code for you. But in video
editing, that's not quite there yet. If
you weren't aware, there's also Kimik
Code, which I want to test out with the
new K3 model. Kimik Code is like Claude
Code or Codex, just its own CLI where
you can directly access the model and
it's got its own little harness that
works quite well. Let me jump in here
and select {slash} model and swap to the
latest K3 model. I've got a prompt where
I want to try out a 3D web design to
create a web page for my Sony FX3, which
I'm often filming with, and I'd love to
create one of those animated sequences
where as you scroll through the page,
you get to see the camera unfold into
the 3D elements it's made up I'm also
going to enable yellow mode, which
allows it to keep running without asking
me constant questions or to approve
different tasks. After running for a few
minutes, it generates this here with
this 3D mock-up of the FX3. This is a
pretty impressive. I know that some
models couldn't even create SVG shapes
in the past and now we've come to a
point where they can create 3D mock-ups
just like this. I can expand through
each one of these sections. I can click
through to any parts of the camera and
view more information. And overall, this
is a really engaging and interactive
page. Heading back to Kimiko, I've got
this massive prompt here to create a
Game Boy Advance emulator as a web page.
After running for a few minutes, it
generates this, which is damn
impressive. It's built on top of Vite
and TypeScript and 3.js using real 3D
models, but not only that, it's using a
real emulator. And the game you're
seeing in there is an actual ROM that's
loaded up and playing. If you're
wondering how this is possible, I'm
doing things like jumping onto Sketchfab
to grab 3D assets like this one here of
a space elevator. And then I grab this
URL and jump back into Kimiko. I can
plug in a prompt something like this
where I link it to the Sketchfab 3D
model. And then I ask it to replicate a
scene of a space elevator where it's
going from Earth all the way to space.
Kimiko is using those assets as well as
its better understanding of visuals to
create this design for a website using
things like 3.js and the models
themselves and creating the space
elevator launching into space. Space
itself as it's rising. This really gives
you a taste of what's already possible
as well as what the future might look
like with how quickly these models are
progressing. A big thanks to Kimiko for
sponsoring today's video. If you want to
learn more about them, definitely check
them out in the comments below.
Otherwise, I'll see you guys in the next
one.
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This video provides an in-depth look at Kimi K3, a powerful new AI model from Moonshot AI featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window. The presenter highlights its competitive performance against models like GPT-4 and Claude 3.5, noting its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and exceptional capabilities in 3D reasoning, coding, and UI/web development. The video also demonstrates Kimi Code in action, showcasing its ability to generate interactive 3D web experiences and complex applications.
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