A Chinese startup has launched yet another open-source AI model. Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI just dropped Kimi K2 Thinking, and “it beats GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, period!!!”
This is bigger than Deepseek-R1, yet the media have chosen to remain mute about it.
As they claim :
- Kimi-K2-Base: The foundation model, a strong start for researchers and builders who want full control for fine-tuning and custom solutions.
- Kimi-K2-Instruct: The post-trained model is best for drop-in, general-purpose chat and agentic experiences. It is a reflex-grade model without long thinking.
And the results speak for themselves, backing up their claims:
Even more impressive: “This Chinese startup pulled it off despite facing both regulatory restrictions and a lack of access to cutting-edge chipsets.”
I’m certain this is just the beginning and there’s much more to come. Now the world is racing to crack Artificial General Intelligence ( AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). It mirrors the race for atomic energy in the 1940s — whoever succeeds first will hold immense power, capable of shaping (or potentially weaponizing) this technology against others.
It reinforces the idea that restrictions aren’t the path forward. Just as humanity once came together to control the power of atomic energy, we now need to collaborate, share technology responsibly, and ensure it’s used wisely. Thus preventing it from falling into the wrong hands.
Links:
Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
Kimi K2 is our latest Mixture-of-Experts model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. It…moonshotai.github.io
Kimi AI – Kimi K2 Thinking is here
Try Kimi, your all-in-one AI assistant – now with K2 Thinking, the best open-source reasoning model. Solves math &…www.kimi.com
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