SEC.03 / LLM Research
Kimi K3 vs Laguna: The Open-Source LLM Race Just Got Real
Moonshot's Kimi K3 spooked US markets last week when it beat GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 at coding benchmarks. Now American labs like Poolside, Thinking Machines, and Reflection AI are shipping models that aim to close the gap. The open-source LLM race is no longer theoretical — it's happening, and the results are getting hard to ignore.