A bold red-and-yellow comic-style explosion fills the background with sharp black streaks radiating outward. In the center is the Mistral-style circular logo in white on a dark circle. Across the lower part of the image, large white and blue text reads: “Meet Kimi K2 Thinking, China’s Model Better Than GPT-5.”

New Chinese Model Kimi K2 Thinking Ranks #1 in Multiple Benchmarks

On November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, its most advanced open-source model yet. It’s the first reasoning-focused variant in the Kimi K2 family and marks a major step forward in long-context, multi-step reasoning and autonomous tool use. Kimi K2 Thinking immediately made headlines for its performance: it set new state-of-the-art scores on several open benchmarks, including Humanity’s Last […]

Promotional image for Kimi K2‑0905, an open-source AI model by China’s Moonshot AI. The image features a bold Kimi logo on a blue gradient background, with the text: “China’s Kimi K2‑0905 just dropped and it’s crushing competition.” The word "Kimi K2‑0905" is highlighted in yellow to emphasize the model name.

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 […]