Reference News Network, July 23 report - According to the website of the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on July 21, when the Chinese startup DeepSeek stunned the world with its artificial intelligence model in December 2024, some called it the "Sputnik moment" in the field of artificial intelligence. This analogy refers to 1957, when the Soviet Union demonstrated to Americans that they had fallen behind in space exploration by launching the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Suddenly, a company with far fewer resources than Silicon Valley giants could compete for the best artificial intelligence model, and it was a Chinese company: the United States' dominant position in artificial intelligence was challenged.

Now, the Chinese are preparing to strike again. This time, everyone should remember a name: Kimi K2. It is the new artificial intelligence model from Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd. Developers say that in standardized programming tasks, Kimi performs almost as well as Anthropic's "Claude 4-sonnet" model and significantly better than OpenAI's GPT-4.1, which is the default model used by ChatGPT. Kimi K2 also shows excellent performance in mathematical reasoning.

The report said that Nathan Lambert, an AI researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, wrote on the social platform "Blue Sky" that Kimi is the new "best open-source model in the world."

Like DeepSeek and Meta's Llama large language model, this model can be downloaded and further developed for free. Kimi K2 can also be accessed via an API interface - at a price much lower than competitors. Investor and technology expert Azim Azhar wrote in his news release that if DeepSeek was the "Sputnik moment," then we are now witnessing the "Vostok 1 moment" - in 1961, Yuri Gagarin, the first person to enter space, traveled in the Vostok 1 spacecraft. At that moment, people realized that the birth of "Sputnik" was not a coincidence for the Soviets, nor would it be a fleeting phenomenon - the Soviets could not only keep up with the Americans, but also surpass them.

The report said that Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2023 and is one of China's emerging leading artificial intelligence companies. China has a group of promising artificial intelligence startups.

The founder of Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd., Yang Zhilin, born in 1992, is a rising star in China's artificial intelligence field. According to the South China Morning Post, during his doctoral studies in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, Yang worked for Facebook's and Google's artificial intelligence departments.

The report said that Yang founded his first company at the age of 23. Now, he is causing a sensation in the field of large language models. OpenAI was supposed to release its own open-weight model last week, but ultimately postponed the release. Meanwhile, Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd. launched Kimi K2 on July 11. (Translated by Song Yuhao)

On June 20, visitors visited the "Artificial Intelligence +" exhibition area at the Beijing Zhongguancun Exhibition Center. (Xinhua News Agency)

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