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Alibaba-backed (NYSE:BABA) Moonshot released the Kimi K2 AI model, a new open-source large language model that is positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4.1 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, particularly in the domain of code generation.
Kimi K2 is open-source and available to the public via app and browser interfaces, making it one of the most accessible high-performing models from a Chinese company.
Moonshot claims Kimi K2 achieves better results than both Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 on two major coding benchmarks, making it particularly strong for code generation and automation tasks and
Cost-wise, Kimi K2 comes at a fraction of the cost vs. competitors, with usage priced at $0.15 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. This compares to Claude Opus 4’s $15 and $75 and GPT-4.1’s $2 and $8, respectively.
Initial reviews of K2 model on both English and Chinese social media have largely been positive, but there are some reports of hallucinations, an issue prevalent in generative AI, where the models make up information.
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