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Fireworks (the author of OP's article) is a western provider based in San Mateo, California

Fireworks isn't serving Kimi K3 yet. Presumably, they ran this benchmark against the Moonshot API.

All of the Western providers with sufficient capacity will be able to make it available when the weights are released Monday.

Fireworks has been working on porting the Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) hybrid linear attention mechanism to their hosting infrastructure https://x.com/FireworksAI_HQ/status/2079776331609584005

Some people might choose Chinese over US these days. Likely looking for EU location.