Kimi K2 thinking: The open-source model giving closed AI labs a run for their money
With performance that rivals the best proprietary models, Moonshot AI’s new open-weights release, Kimi K2 Thinking, signals a major power shift in the AI race. The post Kimi K2 thinking: The open-source model giving closed AI labs a run for their money first appeared on TechTalks .
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