Kimi

Definition

Plain language

A Chinese open-weight language model from Moonshot AI.

Also called: Kimi-K2-Thinking, Kimi-CLI, Kimi-K2.5

Why it matters: It widens the set of credible open-weight options outside the U.S. labs, affecting which models researchers can actually fine-tune and study.

For example, Kimi-K2-Thinking is one of the open-weight backbones researchers compare against Western frontier models on long reasoning tasks.

Heard on the show

“That 77% refusal is one model — Kimi K2 — and they picked it precisely because it's a notorious over-refuser.”

Mentioned in 9 episodes

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