A user claims the Kimi model delivers better output than the upcoming Opus 5 on the same prompts, suggesting open-source and Chinese AI are closing the gap with current state-of-the-art models. The model is rumored to be 3 trillion parameters, indicating significant scale, though current capacity is insufficient to serve it, with K3 expected to support inference providers like Together AI.
A 3T parameter Chinese model outperforming frontier US models would shift the competitive landscape and increase demand for inference compute.