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@SemiAnalysis_X · Sep 18, 2026

Kimi K3 2.8T Revenue & Profit Estimates by

@SemiAnalysis_'s stacked bar chart drew 62.3K views on X: 1.5x @semianalysis_'s median post and #479 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Revenue and profit estimates for Kimi K3 2.8T across four GPU configurations

XDataStacked bar chartKimi K3All Kimi (Moonshot AI) modelsB300 (vLLM)MI355X (vLLM)B200 (Dynamo vLLM)GB200 NVL72 (Dynamo vLLM)
Published by @SemiAnalysis_ on X, Sep 18, 2026. Source: x.com
71/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

More views and a higher engagement rate than the median post: it travelled and people acted on it.

#212 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #4 of 24 @semianalysis_ posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

The post sits in the Reached and resonated quadrant, at #212 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 0.26% save rate sits at the 95th percentile among AI chart posts, 3.4x the 0.076% median.

The post scores 71 and ranks #212 of 1,162 AI chart posts, #4 of 24 @SemiAnalysis_ posts.

At 62.3K views it runs 1.5x @SemiAnalysis_'s 40.3K median, #7 of 24 @SemiAnalysis_ posts.

top 5%save rate

0.257% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

top 17%engagement rate

1.20% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

1.9xthe median stacked bar chart post

Across 15 stacked bar chart posts we hold, the median gets 32.8K views.

1.5x@semianalysis_'s median post

62.3K views, where @semianalysis_'s typical post gets 40.3K.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 24 from @semianalysis_.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #212 of 1,162

Views62.3K#479top 41%
Likes645#374top 32%
Engagement rate1.20%#195top 17%
Save rate0.257%#59top 5%

Among 24 @semianalysis_ posts

Score #4 of 24

Views62.3K#7top 27%
Likes645#6top 23%
Engagement rate1.20%#1top 2%
Save rate0.257%#1top 2%

Growth

One read so far

Views62.3K
Age at our read24 days
Views per day of life2.6Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

@semianalysis_'s posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Sep 18, 2026

@SemiAnalysis_ charts Kimi K3 2.8T revenue and profit estimates

A stacked bar chart of revenue and profit estimates for Kimi K3 2.8T across four GPU configurations drew a 0.26% save rate.

What happened

@SemiAnalysis_ posted a stacked bar chart on September 18, 2026, covering revenue and profit estimates for Kimi K3 2.8T across four GPU configurations. It was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

The post drew 62.3K views, #479 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts. Its score of 71 ranks #212 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #4 of 24 @SemiAnalysis_ posts.

The lesson

A 0.26% save rate, 3.4x the 0.076% median among AI chart posts, marks this stacked bar as a top-decile save. The chart shows printed values from $6.3 to $23.2 per all-in provisioned utility GW per year.

What it means

At #4 of 24 @SemiAnalysis_ posts by score and #7 of 24 by views, this chart sits near the top of the account's own output. Its 0.26% save rate against the 0.076% median among AI chart posts is the widest gap in its factor set.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

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Data and API

16 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 85%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Compute ExpenseB300 (vLLM)10.6 $printed
Model License FeeB300 (vLLM)14.4 $printed
ProfitB300 (vLLM)23.2 $printed
Compute ExpenseMI355X (vLLM)6.3 $printed
Model License FeeMI355X (vLLM)11.5 $printed
ProfitMI355X (vLLM)20.5 $printed
Compute ExpenseB200 (Dynamo vLLM)8.9 $printed
Model License FeeB200 (Dynamo vLLM)10.9 $printed
ProfitB200 (Dynamo vLLM)16.6 $printed
Compute ExpenseGB200 NVL72 (Dynamo vLLM)8.7 $printed
Model License FeeGB200 NVL72 (Dynamo vLLM)10.2 $printed
ProfitGB200 NVL72 (Dynamo vLLM)15 $printed

Showing 12 of 16. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

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GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/2b5bc56f36f1.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/2b5bc56f36f1.skill.md
Make one like thisOpen the post JSONChart data JSONSkill fileAPI docs

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 2b5bc56f36f1.

See the Max planAPI docs
PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/2b5bc56f36f1Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/2b5bc56f36f1/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/2b5bc56f36f1/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/2b5bc56f36f1/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
Claude CodeMax
claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

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