Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
Looks like they intentionally priced it just a little less than Opus… probably to give the impression that it’s a cheaper alternative without people thinking it’s too cheap for a SOTA model and getting suspicious.
As usual, the AI marketing is more sophisticated than the actual technology.
I’m happy to see the Chinese labs start competing on SOTA… but hot damn that price is a turnoff.
Anyone tried Kimi 2.7 Coding out in practice yet? Curious to know how it fares against Deepseek 4 and similar budget options.
Looks like they intentionally priced it just a little less than Opus… probably to give the impression that it’s a cheaper alternative without people thinking it’s too cheap for a SOTA model and getting suspicious.
As usual, the AI marketing is more sophisticated than the actual technology.