Who Built Kimi K3? Inside the Elite Team Driving a $70 B Valuation
The article profiles the 401‑person core team behind the open‑source 2.8‑trillion‑parameter Kimi K3 model, detailing their academic backgrounds, landmark papers, engineering breakthroughs such as Mooncake KV‑Cache, MoBA, Muon optimizer, and the performance gains that let K3 run at only 38% of Claude Fable 5’s cost while boosting request capacity by over 75%.
