venturebeat

2025-11-06

Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has even caught up to OpenAI's flagship, paid proprietary model GPT-5 in key third-party performance benchmarks with a new, free model.

The Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K2 Thinking model, released today, has vaulted past both proprietary and open-weight competitors to claim the top position in [...]

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Anthropic is giving away its powerful Claude Haiku 4.5 AI for free to take on OpenAI

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Match Score: 256.50

venturebeat

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MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that [...]

Match Score: 192.41

Destination

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Match Score: 187.84

Destination

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic's safest AI model yet

In May, Anthropic announced two new AI systems, Opus 4 and Sonnet 4. Now, less than six months later, the company is introducing Sonnet 4.5, and calling it the best coding model in the world to date. [...]

Match Score: 186.83

Destination

2025-04-27

Moonshot AI's open-source Kimi-VL tackles text, images and video with just 2.8 billion parameters

A new open-source AI model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI processes images, text, and videos with surprising efficiency. Kimi-VL stands out for its ability to handle long documents, complex reasonin [...]

Match Score: 156.14

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2025-11-12

Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini

Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]

Match Score: 153.20

Destination

2025-11-07

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking sets new agentic reasoning records in open-source LLMs

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source language model the company calls the "best open-source thinking model."<br /> The article Moonshot AI’ [...]

Match Score: 147.68

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2025-11-12

OpenAI reboots ChatGPT experience with GPT-5.1 after mixed reviews of GPT-5

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1.OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. [...]

Match Score: 135.06

venturebeat

2025-10-20

Claude Code comes to web and mobile, letting devs launch parallel jobs on Anthropic’s managed infra

Vibe coding is evolving and with it are the leading AI-powered coding services and tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Code. As of today, the service will be available via the web and, in preview, o [...]

Match Score: 110.16