I Tested Kimi K3 So You Don't Have To...

Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, has a lot changed in the last few hours. Kimmy K3 dropped and it is completely upset both the balance of power with closed source models, as well as the balance of power between the American sort of hegemony model developers and the Chinese. So, this model company, Moonshot, has been

working on Kimmy for a while now. And I've talked about it a little bit on the channel. You know, they've released them open source on platforms like Ollama. But this really takes the cake. I mean, as you see here, when they dropped just a few hours ago, Kimmy K3 is almost band for band on deep software engineering.

I'd very confidently say this is now in frontier model territory. Frontier software engineering, it actually whoops GPT 5.6 souls' ass. Their own internal benchmarks, as biased as they may be, tell a similar story. And a few of these terminal-style benchmarks, like Terminal Bench 2.1, show it better even than Fable. In this case, Program Bench far

better than Fable. So, this is going to change the, you know, balance of user preferences quite a bit as well. Because why would you pay Fable prices when you can get, you know, 98% now of Fable 5 intelligence at Sonnet 5 costs? And despite how most American companies and wider companies feel about giving a

bunch of data to, you know, {quote} {unquote} scary Chinese models, there's a lot to be said. I mean, if they pump this thing out into the open source ecosystem like they did with Kimmy K 2.7 code, that's significantly going to change the economic calculus of something like Anthropic, uh, OpenAI, and so on. So, like, I'm going to try

these models out right now with you guys, so you could see just what it means when we're not staring at isolated benchmarks. But I did want to be clear, this is a major upset. Like a lot of people in MakerSchool, a lot of people in the companies that I consult with, they've already asked me stuff like,