July 22, according to The InformationMicrosoftTesting the dark side of the moon Kimi K3, ASSESS IF IT CAN BE USED Copilotand plans to access the model to Azure. At present, Kimi K3 is still in the internal testing and platform access phase and has not yet formally become an optional model for Copilot。
The report cites sources that Microsoft Copilot engineers are testing whether Kimi K3 can perform some of the functions previously performed by the OpenAI and Anthropic models. Microsoft has added Kimi K3 to Azure, with specific opening hours, service areas and prices not yet published。
Kimi K3 is an open source model with 2.8 trillion parameters that achieves high results in selected baseline tests. However, the larger size of the model also implies higher deployment and reasoning costs。
According to Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos, the cost of operating Kimi K3 is approximately the same as the Claude Sonnet series in Anthropic。
Microsoft has continued to expand the model range supported by Copilot and Azure in recent years. Previously, Kimi K2.7 Code, Microsoft Foundation, had also provided models such as Kimi K2, Kimi K2.5 and Kimi K2.6。
If Kimi K3 is finally formally connected, Azure clients will have access to the model through Microsoft cloud computing, billing and enterprise management systems。