What would it take to get an American open model to compete with this?
Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
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Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#32License: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or…
I wonder how they'll figure out who to target for litigation when this license is violated.
How many companies host and serve models via API and have a $20M+ revenue? Going to be pretty straightforward to catch offenders.
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#33License: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or…
Kimi 2.6 had the same janky license: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/blob/main/LICENS... - looks like they've been doing that at least as far back as K2.
The models they released in 2025 - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/models - were clean MIT. They started doing the "modified MIT" thing in January 2026 with moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#34What would it take to get an American open model to compete with this?
An act of G̶o̶d̶ Congress?
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I understand the case for open-source models being decelerationist, is this it? Decel: - Potentially reduces investor appetite for funding big labs. - More risk of powerful AI getting in bad hands -> more regulation. Accel: - More competition so big labs can't rest on laurels. - More research in open, so all labs can accrete advancements faster. I feel like open-source = acceleration has a much more clea…
I think it's basically open weights => more inference competition => less profit from inference => less training competition
> less training competition
I think you meant less research and experiments in big labs because they don't get all the AI money.
Training is expensive, but they also have more than 10 000 of employees combined and they cost a lot of money.
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#36License: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or…
Hah, so much for "open weights" :D Fair enough, they're at least downloadable, shame they didn't end up being actually open, nor open source, the community had really high hopes for this. But again, still available for download, so better than nothing else I suppose.
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#37What would it take to get an American open model to compete with this?
Something beyond my imagination
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#38License: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or…
Kimi 2.6 had the same janky license: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/blob/main/LICENS... - looks like they've been doing that at least as far back as K2. The models they released in 2025 - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/models - were clean MIT. They started doing the "modified MIT" thing in January 2026 with moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
To be clear, the restriction on "Model as a Service" past $20M yearly revenue is new to K3. K2.x had the attribution requirement for any commercial use with more than $20M monthly revenue.
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#39What would it take to get an American open model to compete with this?
Latest "big" release from any of the bigger American lab must have been GPT-OSS-120b I think? Released ~summer 2025, so pretty much one years ago. Doesn't seem like it'll happen by itself, so something either forcing their hand figuratively, or something forcing their hand literally.
Personally I was wishing/hoping for one of the recent Gemma releases to be in the ~100B class at least, but sadly Google is keeping that all for themselves.
Re: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kimi 2.6 had the same janky license: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/blob/main/LICENS... - looks like they've been doing that at least as far back as K2. The models they released in 2025 - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/models - were clean MIT. They started doing the "modified MIT" thing in January 2026 with moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
To be clear, the restriction on "Model as a Service" past $20M yearly revenue is new to K3. K2.x had the attribution requirement for any commercial use with more than $20M monthly revenue.
Good catch, thanks.