Moonshot Ships Kimi K3 and Dares Anthropic to Justify Its September Price Hike
Moonshot AI launched its 2.5 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model on July 16, positioning it as a direct challenge to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 just as Anthropic prepares a September price increase. Official K3 pricing hasn't landed yet, but Moonshot's track record of undercutting US labs on cost is already reshaping how developers think about frontier AI pricing.