Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also seemed very token hungr
The author shares observations on the Kimi AI model, praising its performance but questioning its cost efficiency and the Chinese state's decision to open-source it.
Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also seemed very token hungr
Subscribed to Kimi Friday. K3 Agent Swarm is insane. I asked Kimi how AI will effect the labor market over the next 10 years and it spent 45 minutes doing this: “Your report is ready: "AI and the Labor Market Through 2036: Evidence, Forecasts, and Scenarios" — a 96-page Word document (~22,300 word