Coverage (30d)
4vs4
This Week
1vs2
Evidence
1 articlesTeam Size
300vs—
Timeline
Moonshot AI2026-08-17
Kimi K3 becomes accessible inside Claude Code via OpenRouter
Moonshot AI2026-07-27
Released Kimi K3, a 1.56 trillion parameter MoE model
Moonshot AI2026-07-27
Open-weight release of Kimi K3 scheduled to offload compute demand
Moonshot AI2026-07-27
Promised open-weight release of Kimi K3 by July 27, 2026
Moonshot AI2026-07-26
White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to train Kimi K3
Moonshot AI2026-07-20
Paused new subscriptions for Kimi K3 due to GPU capacity limits
OpenRouter2026-04-15
A new, unidentified ~100B parameter model appeared on the OpenRouter API platform, sparking speculation about its origin.
OpenRouter2026-03-19
Platform hosts models from major AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
OpenRouter2026-01-01
Weekly token consumption on OpenRouter shifted from U.S. to Chinese models
Ecosystem
Moonshot AI
developedKimi15 src
competes withOpenAI7 src
developedKimi K36 src
competes withAnthropic6 src
developedKimi K2.55 src
developedKimi K2.64 src
OpenRouter
competes withByteDance1 src
usesKimi K31 src
developedFusion API1 src
usesDeepSeek1 src
usesAlibaba1 src