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SwapKimi K3
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a very large model that can read text, images and video, free to download for research and non-commercial use and aimed at long coding and knowledge-work tasks.
Release page →Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash is a fast AI for answering questions and writing text, offered to developers through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. rather than as a free download.
Release page →The basics
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Combined test score
Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI
Kimi K3 scores 3 points higher.
Chat answers, by people's votes
LMArena text, adjusted for style · LMArena
Neck and neck: in blind votes, people pick each about as often as the other.
Building apps, by people's votes
LMArena WebDev · LMArena
In blind votes, people pick Kimi K3 over Gemini 3.6 Flash about 67% of the time.
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