This Free Chinese AI Model Has Now Surpassed GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Grok-4
This week, a Chinese startup called Moonshot AI released a new model Kimi K2 Thinking and quietly flipped the leaderboard. In independent benchmarks that test reasoning, coding, and autonomous tool use, this free, open-source model didn’t just compete with OpenAI’s GPT-5. It beat it.
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