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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, outperforms GPT 4.1 in public benchmarks

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Midas AI Research
July 15, 2025

🚀 The AI Drop Everyone Will Be Talking About

Moonshot AI has just launched Kimi K2, a one trillion parameter sparse model that is open source, commercially usable, and already outperforming GPT 4 Point 1 in key benchmarks.

This is not just another model release. It's a signal that the era of closed AI dominance is cracking open and ambitious builders are first in line to benefit.

🧠 It Outperforms the Giants (And It’s Free!)

Built to Code, Solve, and Reason Like a Pro

Kimi K2 delivers results that put it squarely in the top tier of AI systems

  • SWE Bench Verified
    Kimi K2 scores 65 point 8 percent
    GPT 4 Point 1 scores 54 point 6 percent

  • Live Code Bench
    Kimi K2 hits 53 point 7 percent
    GPT 4 Point 1 lands at 44 point 7 percent

  • Math 500
    Kimi K2 crushes it with 97 point 4 percent accuracy
    GPT 4 Point 1 comes in at 92 point 4 percent

This is not theoretical performance. It translates to better coding, better reasoning, and better results for real world tasks.

🔧 This Is the Model You Can Actually Build With

Kimi K2 isn’t just trained to answer questions, it’s built to take action.

It supports tool use, multistep logic, and agent style reasoning, making it the ideal foundation for building autonomous copilots, workflow automators, developer assistants, and smart customer-facing tools.

Unlike many frontier models, Kimi K2 gives you full access: you can download the weights, host it yourself, modify it, and deploy it commercially starting today.

💡 You Just Got an Unfair Advantage

Imagine building with a model more capable than GPT 4.1 without paying thousands per month or surrendering control.

That’s exactly what Kimi K2 offers. Pricing is refreshingly straightforward: $0.15 per million tokens in and $2.50 per million tokens out.

There’s no platform lock in, no usage restrictions, and no hidden API limitations. This opens the door for startups, side projects, consultants, and solo builders, not just well funded enterprise teams.

💥 What You Can Create Starting Right Now

Kimi K2 is more than hype, it’s a complete toolkit for builders and business owners.

With it, you can create AI powered research tools, developer assistants that integrate with your tech stack, and internal tools that automate tasks like onboarding, reporting, or QA.

You can train chat agents on your unique business data, tone, and workflows. Or launch custom, client facing bots for coaching, financial planning, content creation, and more. Whether you're running it in the cloud, on prem, or locally, you maintain full control and you can charge for what you build.

📊 Here’s How It Compares to the Best

Capability

Kimi K2

GPT 4 Point 1 and Claude Opus 4

Parameters

One Trillion Sparse

Around 200 Billion Dense

SWE Bench Accuracy

65 point 8 percent

54 point 6 percent

Live Code Bench

53 point 7 percent

44 point 7 percent

Math 500 Accuracy

97 point 4 percent

92 point 4 percent

Input Token Price

15 cents per million

2 dollars per million

Output Token Price

2 point 50 per million

8 to 75 dollars per million

License

Fully Open Commercial Use

Closed and Restricted

🚀 A Massive Shift You Can Ride Right Now

This is the kind of release that resets the playing field. It changes the economics of building with AI. It lowers the technical barrier. And it opens the door to entirely new types of products and business models.

If you are already building with AI, Kimi K2 gives you more power for less money.
If you are new to AI, this is the perfect time to start with one of the most advanced models on the planet.

This is not the future. This is your unfair edge right now.