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Kimi K3 and the Open-Weight Squeeze: 2.8T Parameters Rewrite the Price of Intelligence
Kimi K3's 2.8T parameters and 1M context made headlines, but the deeper story is bargaining power: planned open weights turn frontier capability into a deployable second source. OpenCode's same-day integration, paired with its warning that inference costs remain undiscounted, shows the real bottleneck has shifted from access to affordability.