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ai morning #28 — kimi k3 hits number one and costs half of opus 4.8
An open-weight model from Beijing just beat every closed US frontier model on frontend code quality. It costs about half what Anthropic charges for comparable tasks. The same night it dropped, China's president gave his first-ever AI conference keynote. Those two facts are probably not unrelated.
Marcus walks through what the Kimi K3 benchmarks actually show, why the community is split on whether this is the DeepSeek moment it looks like, and what it means for builders deciding whether open-weight is ready for production.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:17 Kimi K3 tops arena, costs half of…
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