This Open-Source AI Taking Over 3D & Blender — Kimi K3

Open-source AI is having a moment I did not see coming this fast. Kimi K3 launched last week, went straight to the top of the leaderboards — and the place it leads hardest is 3D. 🔹 Try Kimi K3 : https://platform.kimi.ai/?track_id=tr... Get +15% bonus for new users until October 31 That was impossible to ignore, so I put it head to head against Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 on the exact same 3D tasks — procedural shaders, particles and physics, rigging and animating a creature in Blender, and a full playable game built from a single prompt. And it runs at a fraction of the price of the closed models, which makes the real question not whether open-source got cheaper, but whether the cheap model just won. — 🦊 My 3D AI Course: http://learn3d.ai/3d-ai/llm-blender Learn the complete process of turning AI-generated assets into production-ready 3D characters—from concept to Unreal Engine 5. 🏆 Compare the best AI tools for 3D in our leaderboard: https://top3d.ai --- ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 Intro 🚀 01:04 Setting Up Kimi K3 (CLI + Harness) 02:29 Test 1: Blender Donut Recreation 03:55 Test 2: Diamond Shader 05:40 Test 3: Sci-Fi Hologram Effect 07:13 Test 4: Procedural Geometry 08:47 Test 5: Glass Shatter Simulation 11:00 Test 6: Animation Retargeting 12:56 Test 7: Dragon Rigging 14:35 Test 8: Stylized Fire VFX 15:49 Ultimate Test: Mario Kart Clone 20:41 Bonus Test: SimCity 2000 Recreation 23:42 Final Verdict: Is Kimi K3 Worth It? --- Contacts: 💬 Discord:   / discord   🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/Stefan_3D_AI 🔗 LinkedIn:   / stefan-3d-ai