Microsoft reportedly evaluates Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 for Copilot

Microsoft is internally testing Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and evaluating whether some Copilot inference requests currently handled by OpenAI and Anthropic models could be moved to Kimi K3, The Information reported. Microsoft has not made a final decision on replacing any models. Microsoft estimates that shifting part of Copilot’s workload to Kimi K3 could reduce annual cloud infrastructure costs by up to $600 million.