… Not its most powerful and capable — the faster version of that is actually becoming more expensive — but models in its frontier range are now the cheapest they've ever been, and the timeline for this transition of intelligence and pricing is wild. …
… So, it's fair to say that Kimi K3 is incredibly competitive on price, especially when tabled against the costs of those closed-source Western AI models. Microsoft is also considering Kimi K3 for Copilot, while the White House may ban Chinese models entirely. …
… For its inference cost comparisons, Moonshot says that its costs "are measured internally" versus the publicly available token pricing for other companies, but the figures are quite impressive. …
OpenAI says it has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts it believes are operating from China, which used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting U.S. tech and policy debates, including one called “Data Center Bandwagon,” that produced social media comments and comic strips blaming AI… …
… Steinberger clarified in a follow-up post that the $1.3 million figure reflects Codex's "Fast Mode" pricing, which consumes credits at a significantly higher rate than standard execution. …