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Jan 1, 2026
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2025-01
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We tested Kimi K3 against Claude Fable 5 on 3D modeling and animation
Asked both to recreate the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars in 1) pixel style 2) original style. Both are on Max effort.
Kimi K3 took a bit longer than Fable 5 to generate, but came in ~1/3 cheaper on the…
Kimi K3 is the best performing model on nextjs.org/evals, ahead of Fable, reaching a comparable success rate in less time.
This is the first time that an open model is ahead of all proprietary ones for this comprehensive web engineering benchmark.
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▪️ Benchmarks don’t…
Kimi K3 scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Its intelligence is comparable to Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 but remains behind Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Moonshot AI has expressed plans to release the 2.8T parameter model's weights, which would make it the leading…
Moonshot just made history. Kimi K3 is the #2 overall model on the Vals Index, surpassing GPT 5.6 Sol and only slightly behind Fable 5 on the Vals Index.
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