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On July 27, two things happened within hours of each other: Moonshot shipped Kimi K3's 2.8-trillion-parameter weights to Hugging Face just inside its 'by July 27' deadline (1,314 points on Hacker News), and Dario Amodei personally published 'Our position on open-weights models,' opening with a denial: Anthropic has never advocated a ban. This piece verifies what actually shipped, reads the benchmark footnotes, and lays out why 665 HN comments largely refused to take yes for an answer.
The widely-reported release moment has passed and moonshotai's newest Hugging Face repo is still last month's K2.7-Code. Includes my four API measurements across seven hours — but the point is not that it is late. The release is caught between three clocks: Moonshot's engineering schedule, Beijing's draft export controls on weights (already-downloaded weights are unaffected), and Washington's distillation accusation. An open-weight release date is no longer set by training progress.
2.8 trillion parameters, a 51% hallucination rate, six leaderboard wins, and $3.3 trillion wiped from chip stocks. All four numbers are real. The popular reading of all four is wrong. Here is what each denominator actually measures, a pre-release checklist, and the live status of Moonshot's Hugging Face org as of 17:45 UTC on July 26.