Author: Bruno Borges
Date: 2026-07-27
For the past few years, AI competition has focused on one question: Who has the best model? That question still matters, but it is becoming less decisive.
Open-weight models are rapidly approaching the capabilities of proprietary frontier systems. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is only the latest example: although it does not lead every benchmark, it demonstrates that frontier-level intelligence is increasingly available outside a handful of closed labs.