- Published on July 15, 2025
- In Global Tech
China’s Kimi K2 Could Be the Next DeepSeek Moment
As soon as the model was dropped, OpenAI announced a delay in the release of its open-source model.
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Siddharth Jindal
China’s open-source AI scene is heating up again. After DeepSeek’s rapid rise earlier this year, a new challenger is making waves in the form of Kimi K2 from Moonshot AI.
Although it launches with less fanfare, Kimi K2 is now drawing serious attention from AI insiders and outperforming some of the biggest names in the game.
It’s fast, climbing the ranks, beating expectations on benchmarks, and sparking comparisons to DeepSeek’s breakout moment. Some even believe it’s strong enough to have made OpenAI rethink its release schedule.
“China’s Kimi K2 is having its mini DeepSeek moment: it is now #14 on OpenRouter today, ahead of Grok 4 and GPT-4.1,” Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures wrote in a post on X
He added that this is a non-reasoning model, yet it scores highest on
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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