
Jul 17, 2026
✦CNBC TV18
China's Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, closing in on US rivals
Chinese startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model. It is the world’s largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching US giant Anthropic’s Fable model. This launch shows how quickly China’s AI ecosystem is narrowing the gap with advanced US systems, challenging assumptions that developers trail behind.