AI startup Moonshot last week released its latest generative artificial intelligence model which claims to beat OpenAI’s ChatGPT in “agentic” capabilities — or understanding what a user wants without explicit step-by-step instructions.

The model, called “Kimi K2 Thinking,” builds on the K2 model released in July by Beijing-based Moonshot, which is backed by Alibaba. The model outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in several benchmarks, including Humanity’s Last Exam, BrowseComp, and Seal-0.

On the Tau-2 Bench Telecom agentic benchmark, consultancy Artificial Analysis reported a 93% accuracy, the highest recorded so far.

Kimi K2 Thinking uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1 trillion parameters.

The Kimi K2 Thinking model cost US$4.6 million to train, according to a source familiar with the matter. It can automatically select 200 to 300 tools to complete tasks on its own, reducing the need for human intervention, according to Moonshot.

(SD-Agencies)