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Moonshot's Kimi K3 release has sparked a reassessment of Chinese open-weight models' proximity to the frontier, with strong performance in coding, agentic tasks, and long-horizon knowledge work. The strategic focus has shifted from a "compute moat" to an "efficiency stack" involving MoE routing, quantization, data curation, and scarcity-driven infrastructure like Moonshot's "Mooncake" stack. Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis, Arena, DeepSWE, ARC, and Cyber place K3 among the top models, with scores such as 57 on the Intelligence Index and coding agent benchmarks matching or surpassing models like GPT-5.6 Terra and Claude Fable 5. Discussions continue on K3's exact standing, but it is now widely recognized as a significant frontier contender.