Chinese lab behind Kimi. Moonshot AI develops the Kimi family of large models, known for open-weight releases. In this corpus it first appears when Kimi K2.5 claimed the global state of the art on agentic benchmarks as Chinese models closed the gap on nineteen benchmarks, and again in July when its chief executive said plainly that they want K2 to help build K3.
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Moonshot AI
Beijing frontier lab behind the Kimi models, whose K2.5 claimed the global state of the art on agentic benchmarks and whose chief executive later stated the recursion as a product roadmap.
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