A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 – and it’s free

Artur Debat/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models.  The global AI arms race stays in constant flux, […]