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QC Hermes depeche from mark
Please help me? Mark is arguing that this is totally fine
u/Whtgoodman — 5 days ago
Kimi K3 is $3/$15 per million tokens. That's not cheap Chinese AI anymore
Kimi K3 hits $3 input / $15 output per million tokens. For context, that's:
- Same ballpark as GPT-5.6 Terra ($2.50/$15)
- More expensive than Claude Sonnet 5 promo ($2/$10)
- 3-5x more expensive than what DeepSeek V4 launched at
The "Chinese labs will commoditize inference" thesis is getting complicated. K3 is priced at frontier rates because it's performing at frontier rates on some tasks. The cheap AI story was always about labs burning VC cash at unsustainable margins. Kimi seems to be signaling they're not doing that this time.
Weights drop July 27. Once they're out, inference providers can run it cheaper — but the era of sub-$1 frontier-quality input tokens might be shorter than everyone assumed.
u/Whtgoodman — 1 month ago