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1012: The Open-Weight 2.8-Trillion Parameter Competing at the Frontier

aired Jul 24, 2026 · 12.0m
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Summary

Today's episode is all about Kimi K3, a new model out of China that in the space of a single week has managed to rattle investors, kick off a pricing skirmish among the big American AI labs, and reignite a debate in Washington, D.C.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of kimi, model, models, including: Welcome back to the Super Data Science Podcast.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Today's episode is all about Kimi K3, a new model out of China that in the space of a single week has managed to rattle investors, kick off a pricing skirmish among the big America
  2. 02And if the name Kimi rings a bell, that might be because the company's original Kimi chatbot released back in 2023, three years ago, was the first model capable of accepting a cont
  3. 03It's a 2.8 trillion parameter model that Moonshot says is the largest open source AI model in the world
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