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The most powerful open AI model now wasn't from ‘Open’AI? We see a 1T-parameter beast that outperforms GPT-4.1 in real coding tasks, and anyone can run it for Free!
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Move over DeepSeek. Moonshot AI just released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model that’s absolutely crushing GPT-4.1 and Claude 4 Opus on coding benchmarks, and anyone can run it for free.
→ That’s all the more impressive when you consider that Moonshot is relatively unknown outside of China. It had a literal moonshot moment as usage exploded on Openrouter.
Yeah, this might be the most powerful truly open AI model to date.
What Makes Kimi K2 a Big Deal?
SWE-bench Verified: 65.8%
→ that’s +11 points over GPT-4.1
→ and +27 points over DeepSeek V3You can download, fine-tune, and deploy it yourself
It dramatically cuts cost and compute failures, opening the door for even larger or cheaper models
You can use it on OpenRouter today - like ChatGPT but powered by Kimi.
Build your own AI agents, developer copilots, or data analysts without begging for API access.
And in a world where “open” often means “API with limits,” this release is pure oxygen for open-source devs everywhere.
Why it matters: Kimi K2 is the closest open alternative to GPT-4/Claude 4. OpenAI and Anthropic gatekeep. Moonshot flings the doors wide open. If Kimi adds reasoning and multimodal next? It could be the first open supermodel.
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