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Kimi K3 scores 57 on the AA Intelligence Index, comparable to Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, but still behind Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol overall.

Artificial Analysis' independent index placed K3 in the tier of Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, short of the very top closed models, offering a more measured read than the headline hype. ✦ AI generated

Artificial Analysis · Latent Space · 2026-07-17 · original ↗

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Artificial Analysis published an independent evaluation placing K3 at 57 on the AA Intelligence Index, calling it comparable to Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, but still behind Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol overall

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▦ Artificial Analysis ✳ GPT-5.6 Sol ✳ Opus 4.8

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Kimi K3 produces significantly simpler, more readable code than Codex, but misses edge cases that Codex catches, making it roughly equivalent to a GPT-54 or 55 level for coding tasks.Florian Brand · Interconnects · conf 80%The White House alleged that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, describing 'large-scale, covert industrial distillation.'Michael Kratsios · Latent Space · conf 70%