The anonymous model Kivine has hit the Internet, and developers are guessing: Is this Kimi-K3?

Zhidongxi Author | Wang Han Editor | Mo Ying Zhidongzhi reported on July 16 that in the past two days, a new anonymous model, codenamed Kivine, appeared on the large model arena Arena. The above are all pages created by external netizens using Kivine. After testing and comparison, combined with the previous anonymous codenames "Kiwido" and "Kiwire" of Kimi-K2.5 and K2.6, more and more developers began to speculate that this anonymous model is actually Kimi-K3. At the same time, on July 14th, a promotion page briefly appeared on the Kimi API open platform - "Kimi K3 launch limited-time recharge campaign", which marked the launch at 00:00 on July 15th, with 10%-30% bonus for recharge. The page was taken down a few hours later, but the screenshots have spread throughout the technology community. In the early morning of July 16, Dark Side of the Moon officially released a 36-second warm-up video on the X platform. Sharp-eyed netizens discovered that the "3" easter egg flashed across the screen, which may indicate that K3 is about to be released. Various clues come together: This anonymous model called Kivine is most likely the test version of Kimi-K3. Netizens have given rave reviews to K3. Jun Song, founder of the open source ecological foundation SuperGemma, commented that judging from the generated results, "Kimi is obviously better than Opus" and believed that Kivine has reached the level of Opus 5. Some netizens said: "Kimi-K3 is a new milestone... It is simply incredible in 3D and front-end tasks." Some netizens compared the release of K3 to another "DeepSeek R1 moment." After comparing the performance of K3 and GPT 5.6 Sol (extra high), technology reporter Chris believes that GPT-5.6 is better in terms of lighting and special effects, but K3’s (picture) is much smoother. 1. Netizens posted actual measurements: one sentence