On January 23, according to OngwanDark Side of the Moon Kimi director-general (of a company etc)Zhang Seung-chulAt the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in 2026, Kimi's next move was revealed, saying, "We will soon release a new model."
According to Zhang JianjunKimi developed the world's leading open-source model of Kimi K2, Kimi K2 Thinking, using the resources of the top American laboratory 1%Even the top closed-source model of the United States is partially outperformed. “From the very first day of the business, we were well aware that China's start-up companies did not have the conditions to build their own calculations at will.” “This compels us to trade for extreme efficiency through a great deal of fundamental research innovation,” she said
As Zhang Zhang said, Kimi has devoted considerable effort to introducing engineering thinking into the research process to ensure that all algorithmic innovations can operate in a large-scale and stable production system. Kimi, for example, was the first global company to run through Muon Optimizers in large language model training; at the same time, the self-researched Linear mechanism has significantly outpaced the traditional full-care system and achieved a leap-up in efficiency。
DURING THE FORUM'S QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSION, WHEN ASKED WHETHER THERE WOULD BE A NEW "CHINA AI TIME" THIS YEAR, ZHANG SMILED AND RESPONDED: “WE WILL SOON RELEASE A NEW MODEL.”
1AI noted that on January 20, Kimi opened up the registration of the new model API internal survey scheme。