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Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

w4yai wrote: post #74

zius wrote: post #30

In my first interaction ("hi there kimi k3!"), Kimi K3 identified twice out of three times as Claude: > Hi there! Quick note — I'm actually Claude, made by Anthropic, not Kimi. But no worries! https://imgur.com/a/jqpc2Jc and > Just a quick heads-up — I'm Claude, made by Anthropic, not Kimi! Kimi is a different AI assistant (made by Moonshot AI), so it looks like there might be a little mix-up. https://imgur.com/a/AKx…

Models don't know who they are. Stop asking this question to the model as a source of truth.

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Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #58

nojs wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens with other models too - Gemini often identifies as ChatGPT for me, confusing many a debugging attempt

It's distillations all the way down!

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Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by jingpostmedia » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #63

zius wrote: post #30

In my first interaction ("hi there kimi k3!"), Kimi K3 identified twice out of three times as Claude: > Hi there! Quick note — I'm actually Claude, made by Anthropic, not Kimi. But no worries! https://imgur.com/a/jqpc2Jc and > Just a quick heads-up — I'm Claude, made by Anthropic, not Kimi! Kimi is a different AI assistant (made by Moonshot AI), so it looks like there might be a little mix-up. https://imgur.com/a/AKx…

The meme/trope of China copying everything really keeps playing into itself

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Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by trollbridge » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

morpheuskafka wrote: post #53

I have used Telnyx for, on the opposite end of cool-ness, their fax API. Curious if their AI pricing and quality are actually competitive or if this is just a rapid pivot to try to ride the AI wave.

By 2030 or so, it will become clear that AI's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by trollbridge » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #17

jakswa wrote: post #6

what quantization? FP4?

The model is native mxfp4 w/ mxfp8 activations via QAT.

I have some morbid curiousity about what K3 would be like in an FP16 or FP32 model.

Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by trollbridge » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #47

TZubiri wrote: post #27

I think telnyx is a good product, with the only stain to its name being the supply chain attack on their python library. But I don't feel like providing inference is a professional move, it feels like out of scope for a telephony IaaS company. Feels like a FOMO moment where a reputation of years is crashed in a couple of weekends of being drawn into a fad. And the fact that it's a chinese model doesn't quite help? I…

Companies changing their scope or opening side products is not at all unusual. Microsoft is Windows, what's this Xbox thing? Google is search, why do they have email? Y Combinator is a startup accelerator, why'd they make their own Reddit?

I think Microsoft is still trying and failing to figure out what this X-Box thing is.

Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by blackoil » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

apexalpha wrote: post #59

Is this an ad? Why is this provider specifically on the front page? Also why is this not available over openrouter?

Maybe, but how is it different than post for new Macbook?

Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by contactdq » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC

apexalpha wrote: post #59

Is this an ad? Why is this provider specifically on the front page? Also why is this not available over openrouter?

Co-founder/CEO here. Not sure how we got to the front page, but we'll take it.

We've been trying to get on OpenRouter. Just reached out to their CEO. Would be great if people could request it as well.

We're unique in that we have B300 in USA, EU, UAE, and AUS.

Also, building out other agentic primitives like stateful actors (in beta, but will be rolled out globally in the coming weeks):

https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/edge-compute/stateful-act...

Also, if you're doing things agentically, check out AI repo:

https://github.com/team-telnyx/ai

Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by contactdq » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC

heisgone wrote: post #68

apexalpha wrote: post #59

Is this an ad? Why is this provider specifically on the front page? Also why is this not available over openrouter?

I don't mind it as long as the company engage in the comments. They haven't so far.

here now.

Re: Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

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Post by contactdq » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

morpheuskafka wrote: post #53

I have used Telnyx for, on the opposite end of cool-ness, their fax API. Curious if their AI pricing and quality are actually competitive or if this is just a rapid pivot to try to ride the AI wave.

It's not a rapid pivot. We've been doing AI stuff for quite some time, particularly on the voice side. Soon, you'll see more from us on the physical AI side. Our GPUs are colocated next to our mobile core, so as we roll out vision models, you'll be able to do things like agentically pilot drones with low latency.