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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good Feedly Summary: The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses – Apache 2.0 – and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s own…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…

  • Slashdot: China’s Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/1942209/chinas-moonshot-launches-free-ai-model-kimi-k2-that-outperforms-gpt-4-in-key-benchmarks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-source language model by Chinese startup Moonshot AI, which surpasses GPT-4 in key performance benchmarks. Its unique…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Feedly Summary: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It’s a…