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Kimi K3 Best Source Map

Track what is official, what is developer-ready and what still needs verification before you quote, build with or compare Kimi K3.

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Kimi K3 Best Source Map in motion

This short video summarizes the page: the source set, the decision boundary and the practical next action.

Kimi K3 Best Source Map visual summary
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Start with the source boundary

The library separates Moonshot/Kimi pages from papers, API docs, external reviews and community material. That makes the site useful for readers who need a claim they can trace.

01 · Official facts Official pages sit at the center; secondary materials stay on labeled outer rings.
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Use the page by job

Developers can jump to model IDs, reasoning effort, context and pricing notes. Researchers can follow KDA, Attention Residuals and FlashKDA. Editors can find what must be rechecked after the technical report and full weights land.

02 · API shape Choose a job, then route to the page where the supporting source set is already filtered.
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Keep fast-moving facts honest

The source ledger was collected at 2026-07-23T00:30:00+08:00. Pricing, model hosting, weights and technical-report availability can change, so this site marks follow-up work explicitly.

03 · Architecture trail Status markers distinguish verified, queued, pending official release and not-official items.
Source router

Choose the job and get a clean reading path

Use the router when a reader asks for a fact, an API setup, a paper trail, an external review or a pending release check.

Start with Official Sources, then use the Watchlist before quoting release status.
Source cards

Sources used on this page

Cards are generated from the clauxel/kimik3 source ledger and keep source type, priority and status visible.

P0 · Verified · official technical blog

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Official launch page for Kimi K3, including the 2.8T-parameter framing, KDA, Attention Residuals, native vision, 1M-token context and pending report/weight notes.

Open source

P0 · Verified · official API docs

Kimi API Quickstart

Official quickstart with OpenAI-compatible API shape, base URL and a Kimi K3 example model.

Open source

P0 · Verified · arXiv paper

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture

Kimi Linear paper introducing Kimi Delta Attention, the architecture thread the K3 launch page points back to.

Open source

P0 · pending official release · official pending item

Kimi K3 technical report watch

Top-priority watch item for the official technical report covering architecture, training and evaluation details.

Open source