Microsoft Said to Be Evaluating Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 for Copilot, Testing an Alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic Models

Microsoft is testing whether Moonshot AI's newly released Kimi K3 model could take over some of the work currently handled by OpenAI and Anthropic systems inside its Copilot products, running the Chinese-built model on Azure. No official statement has been issued, but the evaluation—reported by CryptoBriefing on the basis of earlier reporting by The Information—signals how far the competitive pressure on frontier models has intensified.