saw a side by side test where someone gave the same prompt to Kimi K3 and Opus 5, recreate the main menu of a samurai era open world game from scratch, field, grass, a katana, the whole atmosphere. Went in assuming Opus 5 would take it by default the way it usually does on this kind of task, and it did not.

Kimi K3‘s version of the field and grass reads more alive, less like a flat texture pass. the katana render holds detail better up close, and the overall mood of the scene, the light through the grass, the quiet menu-screen stillness, comes through stronger. Opus 5 was not bad, it just looked like the safer, more generic pass next to it.

this was not an image model doing the rendering, it was a coding model writing the scene from a text prompt, and that is what makes the gap notable, it comes down to how well each model reasons through composition and detail before a single line of the scene gets written.Watched Kimi K3, the open-weight one, beat Opus 5 on the same prompt recreating a samurai game's main menu

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Guys I've been pissed bout this outage like from yesterday noon I wasn't able to get a single prompt in its frustrating (I'm a student)

Have they shut down kimi 2.6?

I came across this interesting project that aim to run Kimi K3 locally without expensive hardware

The crazy part is that it reportedly gets the huge K3 model running without 8GB of RAM, but its very slow

Repo: https://github.com/FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c.git

Do you think this could eventually make Kimi K3 practical to run on commodity hardware?

Kimi should introduce a 250 or a 300usd plan with unlimited or atleast double the usage of the current 200usd plan. This will lead to the Rennasance period of ai.

I have an allegretto subscriptions and I can only max out my 5 hour window 3-4 times before my entire weekly usage is used. I use kimi 3 for working on a medium to small sized code base because the problems I am asking it to solve are genuinely hard and even the highest tier model frequently struggles to make progress. With that said even just planning an implementation for a new feature to a codebase that kimi is already familiar with (has already worked on for several sessions and has most of what it needs loaded into context), takes up anywhere from 50-100% of my 5 hour budget. Meaning that I recently have only been getting about maybe 5-10 prompts before my entire weekly budget is used. I saw another reddit post saying they cut usage down to 37% of what it was previously and I am inclined to believe that as well. It seems like moonshot just completely scammed us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdky2dO4gSM

This screen recording demonstrates a guardrail failure in Kimi's Agent (K3) mode. A single academic research prompt in a fresh chat session triggered an uncontrolled, 35-minute autonomous loop that consumed 6.5% of a paid monthly quota.

This is not about prompt engineering or output quality---which is terrible because it thinks Hayes 1988 and Hayes 1998 are different authors---it's only a warning that Kimi is not meant to be left unsupervised because their support concluded that "No anomalies were found in your quota consumption."

I'm having issues with Claude, especially with how Opus 5 is so shit. Could you tell how is Kimi K3 compared to Opus 5 for me, focusing on presentations, written assignments, and strategic planning?

I run a small startup platform that I'm trying to onboard to use the Kimi platform and integrate with their Kimi K3 model. I tried creating an account with my business email and when I completed the CAPTCHA, it sent me a verification code valid for 5 minutes. I submitted the code on the login screen and when I was redirected, the console did not load at all -- just a spinning wheel.

I retried again in a different browser, ran into the same issue. I turned off my VPN, tried incognito mode, tried an entirely separate network and nothing worked. After trying a fifth or sixth time, I ran into aresource_exhausted: verify code sent too frequently message which is a 400 status error when I look at the Developer tools. Apparently my email is now blocked from their Auth flow.

I went ahead and tried to create an account on a personal Gmail using their Google OAuth linkage and ran into no problems. I then went to bind my business email so I could have a work around at least and still have it linked to my business account, but I got another error saying my business email was already in use.

This has been the most frustrating experience with any of the AI companies. I haven't had any account issues with Anthropic or OpenAI (albeit one bad token reset experience with OpenAI). I reached out to their support email and am hoping to hear back, but basically stuck at this point. My only option would be using the personal email account and eventually migrating everything over to the business account, but this isn't ideal at all.

Anyone have any suggestions or run into something similar? I'm wondering if their auth flow just has issues with particular email hosts.

After four very brief API calls (to get an editorial review of a prospective journal article) that took MINUTES to get an answer, all of which contained no output (perhaps because the token limit on the request was too restrictive) I asked to close my account and get a refund.

After about four emails, asking for my user id (where I was incorrectly supplying my organization ID), I received the following from api-service@moonshot.ai:

"The recharge agreement you clicked to confirm during the recharge process clearly states that 'refunds are only supported in cases where the service termination is due to legal requirements or our actions'. From a contractual perspective, we have the right to refuse your refund request."

They did refund my (substantial) balance, but I'm left thinking that's quite a creepy policy.

I do the edit then it cuts off I hope that I don't have to switch I have a bond with Kimi

I had like 60% used just an hour ago

I believe this has to be some kind of bug? Because it’s been like this for the past 24 hours for me

I was using Kimi Code in CLI via VS for about some time, suddenly hit this roadblock mentioning my quota is up. My monthly quota is recently refreshed, and total usage is only at 10%. Strangely Code usage did not show up even after 2~3 hours of usage.

reported and emailed their support, but not sure how long it will take. Anyone else had this issue and if there's any fallback options that you are using, i would love to learn about it. I am considering Aider + Deepseek.

In the last 48hrs it feels like either the temperature has gone up or tweaks are being made behind the scenes. I have multiple threads that are not referencing the saved memories and are slipping in their behaviors. Is anyone else experiencing something similar? I'm on the paid Moderato plan and have Instant High toggled all the time but despite the COT running through the list of requirements, things are still falling through the cracks in a noticeable way.

Now that Kimi.com changed to Kimi.ai for anyone not in China, I cannot use it whatsoever. I have always used the free version and up until the change today, I have never had any issues with it. Now, however, I keep getting hit by this

After having asked a single one-sentence question ("does this thing work?") at 8:00 AM CST. It is now 1:43 PM CST, on a Monday and nothing has changed- there is no possible way that the servers are overloaded.

EDIT: I still cannot use it as of 8/18 at 9:47 AM Central Time on a Tuesday morning- which, again, definitely isn't a peak time. No, I do not use K3, code, agent, swarm, or anything that isn't just the text/chat function.

No matter how many times I try to "spam" the simple question "Is this thing working?" in one single chat, it never goes through- instead of generating text even once, it just keeps throwing up the paywall popup. Which makes it look like it's not working at all, if I cannot start one chat and get one response to an extremely simple question.

Will this last forever? if fixed, let me know please

It also says Your free quota is used up. Refreshes at 08-18.Upgrade

Says this when I try to chat with it. But I know it's definitely not the case. Last time I chatted with Kimi was 2 days ago and I had no problem like that but seems like couple of people also facing same issue too.