▶ 1:09 · $MOONSHOT-LABS · Kimi K3 Just Changed Everything...

episode briefing

Kimi K3 Just Changed Everything...

2026-07-21 · 7 company · 11 thematic

sentiment

3 bull0 bear4 neu

speakers

Co-host of Limitless Podcast (episode 210), a 4x/week show covering the frontier of AI and technology with a newsletter reaching hundreds of thousands. The podcast recently spun out as an independent entity.

josh kale

quote

“the valuation of Moonshot Labs in January of this year was $4.3 billion. Now, after they released Kimmy K3 just last week, they announced that they're raising at a new valuation of $30 billion. That is still 30x cheaper than OpenAI's $1 tr…”

—ejaaz

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▶ 1:09 · $MOONSHOT-LABS · Kimi K3 Just Changed Everything...

episode briefing

Limitless Podcast

Kimi K3 Just Changed Everything...

2026-07-21 · 7 company · 11 thematic

sentiment

3 bull0 bear4 neu

speakers

ejaaz

josh kale

quote

“the valuation of Moonshot Labs in January of this year was $4.3 billion. Now, after they released Kimmy K3 just last week, they announced that they're raising at a new valuation of $30 billion. That is still 30x cheaper than OpenAI's $1 tr…”

—ejaaz

now playing · $MOONSHOT-LABS

$MOONSHOT-LABSneutral· mediumejaaz

Moonshot Labs valuation jumps 7x to $30B after Kimi K3 release

Chinese lab achieved near-frontier model performance at 50x lower cost than US peers, but GPU constraints prevent monetization at scale, raising questions about whether Chinese la…

$MOONSHOT-AIbullish· mediumejaaz

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Kimi K3 achieves near-frontier performance at 1/50th the cost of US models, driving massive adoption (58% of US OpenRouter traffic) and a valuation re-rating from $4.3B to $30B, t…

$OPENAIneutral· mediumejaaz

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