On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents

On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/ [https://app.askwhocasts.com/], Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00:00 - Introduction * 00:03:08 - DeepSeek Moments: Here We Go Again * 00:05:47 - We Had a Moment (Reprise from June 2025) * 00:10:33 - The Story Since Then * 00:17:40 - The Kimi K3 Announcement, Pitch and Basic Facts * 00:21:38 - On Modern Benchmaxxing * 00:23:22 - Other People’s Benchmarks * 00:29:18 - Benchmarks Are Not The Real World * 00:30:17 - Technical Safeguards? What Are Those? * 00:33:55 - Things Kimi Can Do * 00:35:09 - Things Kimi Cannot Do * 00:36:46 - Things It Is Not Easy To Get Kimi To Do * 00:39:57 - Open Weight Models Are Unsafe And Nothing Can Fix This * 00:43:41 - Dean Ball Attempts To Be Constructive * 01:01:53 - Trump Administration Considering Executive Order Banning Chinese Open Models Within the United States * 01:05:31 - OpenAI Employees Are Relatively Bullish On This One * 01:06:57 - Kimi K3 Is Relatively Strongest At Typical Agentic Coding, Front End Work and 3D * 01:09:20 - Reactions * 01:13:12 - Who Are You? * 01:15:48 - How Did They Do It? * 01:18:27 - Conclusion https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-kimi-k3-its-capabilities-and-related?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/on-kimi-k3-its-capabilities-and-related?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web] Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe [https://dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age

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AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here

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AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg

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Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026

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