KIMI K2 CHALLENGES GPT-4 & CLAUDE WITH GLOBAL PUSH – OPEN, POWERFUL & CHEAP
— Alibaba-backed Moonshot unveils Kimi K2, boasting superior coding skills and autonomous reasoning
— Open-source + ultra-low cost: $0.15/million input tokens vs GPT-4.1’s $2 and Claude’s $15
— Outperforms GPT-4.1 & Claude Opus 4 in key benchmarks
— Free for all users, with credits only required for apps making $20M+/month or serving 100M+ users
— Already trusted in production — “Knows when to stop,” says early adopter Pietro Schirano
As U.S. giants delay open models over safety, China’s Moonshot accelerates innovation — fast, flexible, and production-ready.