Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
China just dropped a new open-weight model that might just shake the AI world again.
Meet Kimi K2 Thinking — a trillion-parameter MoE trained to think, not just predict. It interleaves reasoning with function calls, runs hundreds of steps autonomously, and even beat Grok-4, GPT-5, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on the hardest benchmark out there: Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE).
What’s wild is that it’s open, cost-efficient, and built by a startup valued at 0.5% of OpenAI. K2 Thinking can chain 200+ tool calls, reason across hundreds of steps, and output full research or coding workflows from a single prompt — like running a Sherlock-Holmes-style crime pattern analysis end-to-end with visuals and a website, all by itself.
It’s fast too: quantization-aware INT4 training cuts cost and doubles generation speed — and all benchmarks are reported at serving precision (finally, fair comparisons).
Could this be China’s next DeepSeek moment?
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#KimiAI #MoonshotAI #AIrevolution #short
China just dropped a new open-weight model that might just shake the AI world again.
Meet Kimi K2 Thinking — a trillion-parameter MoE trained to think, not just predict. It interleaves reasoning with function calls, runs hundreds of steps autonomously, and even beat Grok-4, GPT-5, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on the hardest benchmark out there: Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE).
What’s wild is that it’s open, cost-efficient, and built by a startup valued at 0.5% of OpenAI. K2 Thinking can chain 200+ tool calls, reason across hundreds of steps, and output full research or coding workflows from a single prompt — like running a Sherlock-Holmes-style crime pattern analysis end-to-end with visuals and a website, all by itself.
It’s fast too: quantization-aware INT4 training cuts cost and doubles generation speed — and all benchmarks are reported at serving precision (finally, fair comparisons).
Could this be China’s next DeepSeek moment?
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#KimiAI #MoonshotAI #AIrevolution #short
