Kimi-K3

This is the biggest open model release in some time, and we covered it in a separate post and a podcast episode. It was released under a noncommercial license, requiring inference and fine-tuning providers to enter into a commercial agreement. Kevin Xu and Graham Webster argue in a post that these licenses enable potential future government action against US entities doing business with Chinese AI companies:

But if a US company needs a contract with Moonshot to provide the inference tokens that Kimi K3 generates, the picture looks different. Some of the policy tools US officials and others have debated as potential levers to restrict Chinese open model use would more clearly apply.