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China’s Moonshot Launches Open Source Ai Model, Openai Postpones
CHINA, JUL 11 – Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 model achieves 53.7% accuracy on coding benchmarks, surpassing top competitors, and is freely available to developers and businesses worldwide.
- On July 11, 2025, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-source model available freely, open-sourcing the model in Beijing, China.
- Aligning with industry trends, Moonshot AI embraced open-sourcing, Yang Zhilin said the launch was a bid to reclaim market share amid an open-source trend in China.
- Benchmarks show K2 outperforms open-source models, it generates SVGs and debugs code independently.
- With this release, collaboration in the tech community flourishes, and access is democratized.
- Future adoption of K2 positions Kimi as a key AI player, offering capabilities for diverse applications in the evolving AI landscape.
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