Kimi K2 logo on a blue-yellow gradient background with bold text: Another Open-Source Chinese AI Beating GPT-4

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 […]