Kimi K3's Weights Are Out — and Washington Can't Tariff a Download

Moonshot AI released the full open weights for Kimi K3, a reported 2.8-trillion-parameter model described as the largest open-weight release yet, and developers had it running on high-end laptops within hours — with Together AI signing on to serve it natively. The confirmed core is the release and the infrastructure demand; the superlative size claim and the reported parity with Claude on coding remain unverified and rest largely on enthusiastic community posts. The larger story is the reaction: because a free, self-hosted model has effectively zero API cost, the usual US levers — export controls, pricing, access restrictions — don't reach it, turning Kimi K3 into a live test case in the fight over whether Washington should restrict powerful open Chinese models. The s ...