Kimi
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Research-heavy workflows, long document analysis, users who need 128K+ context windows.
Simple chat use cases; less brand recognition than ChatGPT or Claude in Western markets.
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It's a good opportunity for people to try kimi and others.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: AI coding assistant (alternative to Claude Code)
I look at the output of Kimi and the costs of running inference on it that i can replicate, and it isn t that bad.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running inference and evaluating output
kimi was in most of the cases better and my replacement for claude when i run out of tokens. Now im finding myself using glm more then kimi.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General AI assistant, replacement for Claude
kimi was best open source model for me. But it solved something that kimi k2.5 could not.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General AI tasks / problem-solving
I've been messing with using... Kimi... for reverse engineering... it's a ton of fun. Great because matching bytes is a scoring function that's easy for the models to understand and make progress on.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: reverse engineering, matching bytes as a scoring function
We are currently evaling alternatives... Kimi, Chatgpt, Qwen are so far the best candidates.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: evaluating as an alternative for coding tasks
it's way better. That said, it's still not perfect.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Suggested as a better alternative to Kimi K2
it was not very good at the time.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Evaluating the model out of curiosity
I do also use KimiK2.5 and GLM5 pretty often too.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Using it often for agent tasks
I've been on Kimi now for 3 months. I rarely used Google in that time.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: search engine
The key insight is that cheap models in consensus are more reliable than a single expensive model.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Part of a quorum/voting system for LLM responses and tool use
I tried this today. It s good - but it was significantly less focused and reliable than Opus 4.5... I found the model had to double-back to fix type issues, broken tests, etc, far more than Opus 4.5.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Implementing specifications for modifications to a Node.js/Express service
The other frontier models, and even open source Chinese ones like Kimi... understand perfectly fine what we mean by it.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Understanding nuanced instructions (like 'don't use academic language')
With the hardware, they can pry... Kimi-K2, etc. from my cold dead hands lol.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running quantized large open Chinese models locally for inference due to access restrictions.
even if you use SOTA open source models like Kimi K2.5... they simply aren't as capable as the SOTA models from the frontier labs.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Considering as an open-source model for self-hosting an internal agent.
All of them but DS got it right. Implies Kimi K2.5 answered the problem correctly.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Testing its reasoning on a practical problem (whether to walk or drive a very short distance).
for taste one can also use Kimi K2.5.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Tasks where 'taste' is a priority
open source models (Kimi, Deepseek, Qwen) are getting better and better, and apple makes excellent hardware for local LLMs.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Referenced as an example of a high-quality open-source model suitable for local LLMs.
If you pick a solid and fast default, like kimi-k2, it's a great experience.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Selected as the default, fast model within Kagi's assistant for AI queries.
The Kimi K2 model from assistant are both excellent in helping find what I actually want to see.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Used via assistant to help find information
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