> be Kimi Founder
> Zhilin Yang. nobody in the West knows your name.
> build K1. K2. K2.5. K2.6. K2.7.
> each one sets the open-source record
> everyone says China can't reach the frontier
> raise $2B. hit $20B valuation.
> keep your head down. keep shipping.
> July 16. drop K3.
> 2.8 trillion parameters.
> the biggest open model ever released.
> 1 million token context. native multimodal.
> Kimi Delta Attention — 6.3x faster decoding.
> Artificial Analysis ranks it #
4# overall.
> right behind GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5.
> open weights July 27. free for anyone.
> the closed labs charge for the frontier.
> you gave it away.
> different game.
before you watch the World Cup final tonight, watch this 30-minute interview with Kimi founder Zhilin Yang
it's the clearest look I've seen at how K2 was actually built and where AI models go next
> why compute scaling still beats every other method
> why the "data flywheel" everyone talks about hasn't formed yet
> the real challenge in multimodality nobody mentions
> why K2 was closer to a base model — the real potential wasn't unlocked yet
this is only part of the interview, translated to English — and everything he hinted at just shipped as Kimi K3, 2.8 trillion parameters, the biggest open model ever
full breakdown below
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