A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 – and it’s free

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday.
• It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks.
• Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. 

The global AI arms race stays in constant flux, this time thanks to the arrival of a new model from the up-and-coming Chinese AI lab Moonshot.

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