[The Dark Side of the Moon Kimi K3 Release Imminent, Expected to Surpass Opus 4.8] According to monitoring by Beating Insights, the *Financial Times* has revealed that The Dark Side of the Moon (Kimi) plans to release the Kimi K3 in the coming days. The model's parameter scale is expected to reach 2 trillion to 3 trillion, making it the largest AI model in China to date. Insiders indicate that based on mainstream evaluation benchmarks, K3 is expected to outperform Opus 4.8 but fall short of FABLE 5. It will be made available for free download as an "open-weight" model, posing a significant challenge to U.S.-based AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI.