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.
- Chinese startup Moonshot AI released its open-source large language model Kimi K2 on July 11, 2025.
- Moonshot launched Kimi K2 amid growing competition and OpenAI's indefinite delay of its own open-weight AI model for safety reviews.
- Kimi K2 features a trillion parameters, uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, offers lower token costs, and excels in coding and complex task completion.
- Experts described Kimi K2 as globally competitive and agentic, with positive early reviews noting its performance surpasses models like ChatGPT and Claude in some benchmarks.
- Moonshot's release highlights the shift toward open-source AI in China as OpenAI delays release indefinitely, reflecting intensified AI competition and safety concerns.
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