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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Could Cause Bigger Wave in Market than DeepSeek

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Date Published
22 July 2026
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22 July 2026, 12:00 pm

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Amplify AI Group CEO Will Liang says Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 could cause a bigger wave in the market than DeepSeek. “It is certainly a game changer,” Mr Liang told Sky News Australia. “January last year we already saw DeepSeek come out and cause quite a big wave in the market. “This one can be even bigger.”

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Recent advancements in China’s AI landscape, specifically Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model, signal a shift toward massive scale reasoning capabilities that rival or surpass the impact of the DeepSeek-V3 release. These frontier model developments emphasize heightening the efficiency and power of LLMs, which directly influences global competitive dynamics and the speed of advancement toward AGI. The emergence of such high-capability models from diverse geographical regions complicates global AI safety governance and oversight of catastrophic risk. This development highlights the urgent need for international coordination on frontier model safety standards to prevent a race-to-the-bottom in safety protocols.