# Kimi 3: AI bench marks are just marketing | David Gerard

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Podcast: [The Tech Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-report-7700174)
Published: 2026-07-21T18:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

“Absolutely everyone tunes their models to all the benchmarks.” Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the value of AI benchmarking following the reaction to Kimi 3, Chinese company Moonshot’s newest open weight LLM that created a shock to US tech stocks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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