Kimi's new 2.8T model almost matches Claude Opus 5.5
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T MoE model that scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 — just 0.7 points behind Claude Opus 5.5 — at $2/$10 per million tokens.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T MoE model that scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 — just 0.7 points behind Claude Opus 5.5 — at $2/$10 per million tokens.
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