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Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark

By Shaurya MalwaJuly 17, 2026 · 1 min read

Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.

The part that rattles valuations is the license. K3 is open-weight, with the full model due for public release on July 27. Anyone will be able to download it, run it on their own hardware, and pay no…

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