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Early Kimi K3 model completed its own kernel optimization

Miles Brundage says this aligns with US industry claims.

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Early Kimi K3 model completed its own kernel optimization

Miles Brundage says this aligns with US industry claims.

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MB Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage

8:40 AM · Jul 17, 2026

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One of the more notable bits in the K3 blog post: "In the late stages of Kimi K3 development, an early version of Kimi K3 handled the majority of the team's kernel optimization works." (American companies have said similar things in the past 6 months or so)

PJ Peter J. Liu@peterjliu

11:59 AM · Jul 17, 2026

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@Miles_Brundage This sort of optimziation work is perfect for LLMs

AC Andrew Carr 🤸@andrew_n_carr

7:29 PM · Jul 17, 2026

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@Miles_Brundage yes! although it seems much stronger on kernel bench, sandbagging from American labs or did they actually get a lead there?

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Users praise Kimi K3's early version for handling most kernel optimization work because it demonstrates the model performing real engineering tasks that suit LLMs well.

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BL Blum@Blum_OG

8:43 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@Miles_Brundage sounds like the model was already doing real engineering work not just generating code snippets