Kimi K2.5 AI model showing a fast-moving kiwi fruit streaking through space, with the Kimi logo and headline “Kimi K2.5 Is Here: Chinese Model Rivaling GPT-5.2” on a dark cosmic background.

Kimi K2.5: All You Need to Know About China’s Most Powerful Open-Source AI

On January 27, 2026, Chinese AI company Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5 — and the tech world took notice. Within days, independent evaluations confirmed what the company claimed: Kimi K2.5 performs on par with the best AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic on many key benchmarks. But unlike ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, Kimi K2.5 […]

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Le nouveau modèle chinois Kimi K2 Thinking se classe #1 dans de nombreux tests de performance

Le 6 novembre 2025, Moonshot AI, soutenu par Alibaba, a publié Kimi K2 Thinking, son modèle open-source le plus avancé à ce jour. Il s'agit de la première variante axée sur le raisonnement de la famille Kimi K2, qui marque une avancée majeure dans le domaine du raisonnement en contexte long et en plusieurs étapes, ainsi que dans l'utilisation autonome d'outils. Kimi K2 Thinking a immédiatement fait les gros titres pour ses performances : il a atteint de nouveaux scores sur plusieurs benchmarks ouverts, dont Humanity's Last [...]

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China’s Moonshot AI Dropped Kimi K2 (0905) – The Open-Source Model Crushing the Competition

Moonshot AI, Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is rolling out an upgraded version of its open‑weight open-source large language model, Kimi K2. The new build Kimi K2‑0905, introduces a 256,000-token context window, improved coding performance, and retains its permissive modified MIT license. Although early beta access was briefly mentioned on the company’s Discord […]

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Alibaba-Backed Kimi K2 Is Moonshot AI’s Open-Source Challenger to GPT-4

Moonshot AI, the Alibaba-backed Chinese startup, has released Kimi K2, an open-source language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters. This release signals China’s most significant attempt yet to close the gap between open-source and proprietary models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus. The model is available in two variants: Kimi-K2-Base for researchers and Kimi-K2-Instruct for general-purpose and […]