Dean Ball, head of OpenAI strategy, publicly commented that K3's performance cannot be achieved by distillation. Another opinion defines the open weight model as a “decelerationist”, believing that open source will reduce the commercial return of cutting-edge models and reduce the industry's willingness to continue to invest in R&D; David Sachs, an AI adviser to the Trump administration, stated that “this is worrying.” Kimi did not directly name and refute it, but the core statements of the entire conversation were in contrast to the above views. Huang Zhenxin clearly stated, “The open source model and the big Chinese model should not be labeled as a low price. We have made a SOTA-level model, which can also match reasonable commercial pricing.” In response to the speculation that “K3 is a small distillation model” circulating in the outside world, Huang Zhenxin clarified that the core of K3's performance jump comes from innovation in the underlying original architecture, not a distillation copy of the existing model.

Dean Ball, head of OpenAI strategy, publicly commented that K3's performance cannot be achieved by distillation. Another opinion defines the open weight model as a “decelerationist”, believing that open source will reduce the commercial return of cutting-edge models and reduce the industry's willingness to continue to invest in R&D; David Sachs, an AI adviser to the Trump administration, stated that “this is worrying.” Kimi did not directly name and refute it, but the core statements of the entire conversation were in contrast to the above views. Huang Zhenxin clearly stated, “The open source model and the big Chinese model should not be labeled as a low price. We have made a SOTA-level model, which can also match reasonable commercial pricing.” In response to the speculation that “K3 is a small distillation model” circulating in the outside world, Huang Zhenxin clarified that the core of K3's performance jump comes from innovation in the underlying original architecture, not a distillation copy of the existing model.