February 27th.Kimi The latest model k1.6 was revealed today. According to LiveCodeBench, a global dynamic benchmarking platform, theKimi k1.6 over GPT o3mini, o1, etc. models, achieving the top in the code generation test.
Flood, a Dark Side of the Moon researcher, stated on social media platforms thatk1.6 is based on k1.5, and performance is still being improved..
Zhang Yutong, co-founder of Dark Side of the Moon, said in a circle of friends, "k1.6 Not yet released, but happy to see the LiveCodeBench results and looking forward to the continued evolution of the smart models."
Dark Side of the Moon's Kimi was one of the most talked about AI products from startups in China before the rise of DeepSeek. However, after DeepSeek's open-source, low-cost, high-performance explosion, news has surfaced that Dark Side of the Moon has decided to drastically reduce its product placement budget, including suspending multiple Android channel placements and cooperation with third-party advertising platforms.
Sources close to the situation said that DeepSeek's explosion was a bit of a boost for Dark Side of the Moon internally.The team reviewed and decided to stick with the base model SOTA(Note: State-of-the-art, current best). Next, the team will likely retrain the base model while grabbing opportunities at the application layer. One of the product directions selected internally is DeepResearch, an intelligent body product for the deep research space released by OpenAI in February.
