This Summer I Made Kimi K3 My Primary Model
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8 Max, and the GA release of DeepSeek V4 Flash all shipped within a month. GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3.1 are still rumors. I also switched my daily-driver model from Claude Code Opus to Kimi K3. This post fact-checks the wave and lays out what actually changed for me.
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