August 16, 2026

Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

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Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has even caught up to OpenAI's flagship, paid prop...