Kimi

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a16z Insight
Horowitz: Billions in compute can now instantly erase a startup's multi-year lead
“The one thing we all knew in startup world is that if I have a two-year lead on you, and you try and cast me by hiring a thousand engineers, you're gonna wreck your company. Like, that never works. It's a mythical man month. Nine women can't have a baby in a m…”
Ben Horowitz Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 17:05 Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thompson: Chinese open models like Kimi have high marginal inference costs
“You still have to run inference like GLM or Kimi. Kimi is very expensive to serve. The cost per answer is significantly higher.”
Ben Thompson Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 6:25 What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
20VC Opinion
Atallah: Moonshot's Kimi Lags Frontier Models in Cyber and Long-Horizon Tasks
“It's not cyber capable in the way, the same way the frontier models are and long range, long horizon tasks. I think it's still a bit behind the frontier models, but.”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 36:43 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
20VC Opinion
Atallah: GLM 5.2 Was a Major Step for Open-Weight Models
“GLM 5.2 was a really big, big step for open weight models. Kimmy was kind of like moonshot getting up to that step. That's a little bit how I see it.”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 37:01 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
LATENT SPACE Assertion Partly supported
Baseten's vision-retrofitted GLM-5.2 scored 56% on MMLU Pro without text degradation
“It's not, you know, it got to a 56% on MMLU Pro, I think, so not, not quite Frontier, but if you're running this model, you haven't suffered any loss on your GLM-Five-II quality.”
Philip Kiely Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 19:22 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Fitting a 2.8-trillion parameter model on one node requires eight GB300s
“You need GB 300 to fit it on a single node. It's simple math. NVFP four, 2.8 trillion parameters 1.4 terabytes. The GB 300 have 288 gigabytes each. So across eight of those you have enough room For the model”
Philip Kiely Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 1:11:37 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
ALL-IN Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Calacanis: Major enterprise customers will abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for open-source
“And I'll make this prediction here, that you're going to see some of the major customers Of Anthropic and major customers of OpenAI. I'm talking about the eight and nine figure customers, people spending fifty million, a hundred million a year. They're leaving…”
Jason Calacanis Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 45:09 Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
Chaubard: AI models are recursively distilling into one another, Claude into Kimi
“What I think is kind of happening right now, but like clawed kind of mother birds into, Kimmy too, and then now Kimmy too is post-training thinking machines, and so it just keeps going and going.”
Francois Chaubard Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 6:51 Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
20VC Assertion Supported
O'Driscoll: Hugging Face defended against OpenAI probe using Chinese models
“The Chinese open source, open rate models were available, and I think they use Kimi or Kuan or one of the newest models to help them figure out what happened, right? So they were able to defend themselves using an open source model, and then they do this blog …”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 9:28 Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
TBPN Assertion Supported
Tae Kim: Kimi is a 2.8T parameter model requiring massive compute
“This is not a tiny efficient model. This is 2.8 trillion parameters. It's going to require a ton of compute to serve.”
Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 10:49 RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim
Shao: Compute Limits Force Chinese AI Labs Into Distinct Specializations
“What you've seen is a lot of these tiny labs faced with compute constraint and in some ways capital constraint, they're forcing them to specialize rather than compete across every dimension. So, you know, for the sake of, you know, deep seek, it's really, real…”
Grace Shao Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 3:42 How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Shao: DeepSeek and Moonshot Founders Focus on AGI Over Consumer Apps
“I think both, you know, DeepSeek and Kimi, if not seen as kind of the top two labs right now coming out of China, both founders have openly talked a lot about management of people you know, removing distractions, really focused on the pursuit of AGI, not kind …”
Grace Shao Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 5:52 How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao
20VC Disclosure
Stebbings: Offered $5M SPV allocation in Chinese AI startup Kimi
“I was offered Kimmy today, by the way, Rory at 20 Berlin. This was the, it fell into my inbox. I have an SPV for you. Do Kimmy at 20 Berlin. We're oversubscribed, but we'll make room for five million for Harry.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 23, 2026 ▶ 18:23 Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
GPT-5 and Chinese AI model Kimi readily find bugs and write exploits
“You can just ask GPT-V to go find these bugs and it will go do it for you. You can just ask Kimi, which is an open source Chinese model. It will go write you these exploits.”
Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 7:11 AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
Malde: Western open-source AI lags Chinese models at trillion-parameter scale
“I think America or the Western world has some work to do still. Like obviously having one trillion parameter models like Kimi or like an amazing models like GLM and DeepSeq, I don't think we're quite there yet for that size of model.”
Ronak Malde Jun 21, 2026 ▶ 14:41 ⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Dubois: Models like Kimi and DeepSeek use ~1M RL data points
“Now when you look at reinforcement learning from models like Kimi or from DeepSeq models, it seems that they are closer to one million data points.”
Yann Dubois May 21, 2026 ▶ 38:08 OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
O'Laughlin: Running Kimi agent swarms requires 16 Nvidia H100 nodes
“To just run the swarm, I think it's like a 16 node of H-one hundreds.”
Doug O'Laughlin Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 35:31 Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
TBPN Opinion
Steinberger: MiniMax 2.1 is currently the best open-source model
“I can run Minimax two one, which is I would say is, is the best open source model right now, although Kimi just came out and I haven't had a chance to try it yet, so, so we'll see how that goes.”
Peter Steinberger Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 22:20 Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
a16z Assertion Supported
Alibaba, ByteDance, and Moonshot AI assistants rank in top 20
“Quark, which is Alibaba's AI assistant on both web and mobile. Daobao, which is ByteDance's AI assistant on also on both web and mobile. And then Kimi, which is another general AI assistant from Moonshot AI. Each of those ranks, actually all of them in the top…”
Olivia Moore Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 7:13 The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025

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