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Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model, has reportedly surpassed GPT-5 and Claude Sonn...

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The article introduces a new top-tier reasoning model that challenges Western frontier labs while validating the Frame 2 debate regarding CN open-weight efficiency and cost-collapse.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model, has reportedly surpassed GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key reasoning benchmarks. This Chinese startup achieved a 44.9% score on Humanity's Last Exam, highlighting extraordinary capability gained at an estimated training cost of just $4.6 million. The breakthrough proves that world-leading AI is not exclusively reserved for closed, high-cost Western labs. The true battle for general AI is now a highly efficient, global, open-source competition.

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