Microsoft is testing the Dark Side of the Moon Kimi K3 and may introduce Copilot and Azure platforms. According to "The Information" report, Microsoft is testing the latest model of Dark Side of the Moon (Moonshot AI) Kimi K3 to evaluate its integration with Microsoft Copilo

Microsoft is testing Dark Side of the Moon Kimi K3 and may introduce Copilot and Azure platform. According to "The Information" report, Microsoft is testing Kimi K3, the latest model of Dark Side of the Moon (Moonshot AI), to evaluate its feasibility of integrating Microsoft Copilot, and at the same time promoting the model to enter the Azure platform. Currently, Kimi K3 is still in the internal testing and platform access stage of Microsoft and has not yet officially become an optional model for Copilot. Microsoft has not announced its specific launch time, service area and pricing information on Azure. This isn’t the first time Microsoft has introduced a Dark Side of the Moon model. On July 1, GitHub Copilot has officially launched Kimi K2.7Code as the first open weight model to enter the Copilot model selector, and GitHub provides hosting services based on Microsoft Azure. The model is initially available to Copilot Pro, Pro+ and Max users, with enterprise users needing to be manually enabled by an administrator. Currently, Microsoft has provided Kimi K2, Kimi K2.5 and Kimi K2.6 series models on the Microsoft Foundry platform. If Kimi K3 is officially connected to Azure in the future, enterprise customers will be able to call this model through Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure, unified billing system and enterprise management capabilities, without directly connecting to Dark Side of the Moon services. Microsoft continues to expand its model selection for Copilot and Azure, reflecting its AI product strategy’s evolution toward multi-model architectures. In addition to long-term partner OpenAI, Microsoft has gradually introduced models from companies such as Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI, Meta, and Dark Side of the Moon in recent years to provide more flexible choices between performance, cost, and application scenarios based on different task requirements. The potential access of Kimi K3 will also further enrich the model supply of the enterprise-level AI application ecosystem. via AI News (author: AI Base)