Kimi K3 Isn't Free. It Just Looks That Way.
Jul 20, 2026AI Policy·Noah Ogbi·11 minJul 20
Moonshot's Kimi K3 is set to join DeepSeek's models and Alibaba's Qwen as a free download climbing the leaderboards. But between Anthropic and OpenAI's distillation findings, NIST's security testing, and Beijing's own moves to lock down its "open" frontier, the case for treating these weights as neutral technology is getting harder to make.