Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 model weights under custom licence: What it means for enterprises

5 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 28, 2026 05:18 PM IST People walk past the Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. (Image: Reuters)Beijing-based Moonshot AI completed the rollout of Kimi K3, its largest and most performant open-weight AI model, by releasing the model weights under its own licence. The Chinese AI startup on Monday, July 27, also published a 47-page technical report comprising details about the techniques used to train Kimi K3, what obstacles it encountered, and the infrastructure required to run the open-weight AI model independently.Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion parameter model with a one million-token context window and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that was, so far, accessible via Moons