The Dark Side of the Moon today announced the release of the new visual thinking model k1. This model is based on reinforcement learning technology, supporting end-to-end image understanding and integrating chain-of-thought techniques, extending its capabilities beyond mathematics to more foundational scientific fields, including physics and chemistry. In benchmark capability tests, the k1 model outperformed leading global benchmark models, such as OpenAI's o1, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

The Kimi AI assistant under The Dark Side of the Moon has launched a new feature - the Visual Thinking Edition. This update enables Kimi to perform detailed observations and in-depth analysis of images sent by users, revealing the secrets behind the pictures. Users can now directly ask Kimi questions, utilizing its visual thinking capability to resolve their doubts.

Recently, Zhu Xiaohu, the managing partner of Jinshi River Venture Capital, has repeatedly posted on social media in response to the Dark Side of the Moon arbitration case, criticizing former managing partner Zhang Yutong. In response, Yang Zhiling, founder and CEO of the Dark Side of the Moon, issued a statement last night via social media, addressing questions regarding his exit from his previous company to start anew and the issue of Zhang Yutong's shares in the Dark Side of the Moon. Yang Zhiling clearly stated that all necessary procedures received the signature approval of each director when he left Cyclical Technology to begin a new venture. He emphasized his clear separation from the previous company and some shareholders.

According to media reports, Tan Xu, former Chief Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia, joined the startup Dark Side of the Moon in August, primarily responsible for developing end-to-end speech models. One important goal after Tan's joining is to create a speech experience similar to GPT-4o for the company. Dark Side of the Moon has not yet responded, but insiders have confirmed Tan's employment, and specific position details have not been finalized. Public information indicates that Tan Xu's research areas include deep learning, language/speech/music processing, and AI content generation, with publications in AI academic conferences.

Recently, at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Yunqi Conference, Kimi founder Yang Zhilin discussed the impact of generative AI technology on AI application product development. He pointed out that the current development of AI technology provides product managers with new exploration opportunities. The key is to find a balance between delay and enhancing user experience, ensuring that the incremental value outweighs the loss in experience. Yang Zhilin believes that generative AI's output of answers requires systematic thinking, which leads to increased delays and may result in a poor experience for users. However, more extended deliberation could indeed...

Recently, Kimi Open Platform, a subsidiary of Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd. in Beijing, announced a collaboration with Feishu to integrate Kimi's text analysis and understanding capabilities into Feishu's multi-dimensional tables. This partnership allows users to directly use Kimi's Reading Assistant within Feishu's multi-dimensional tables to conduct in-depth analysis, understanding, translation, and summarization of files such as Word, PDF, Excel, and images, thereby achieving automated form filling and significantly enhancing work efficiency.

The Kimi Open Platform under Dark Side of the Moon has announced a 50% reduction in context cache storage costs. Specifically, the cache storage cost has been reduced from 10 yuan/1M tokens/min to 5 yuan/1M tokens/min.

The Kimi Open Platform recently announced that the highly anticipated Context Caching feature will soon enter beta testing. This innovative feature will support large text models and provide users with an unprecedented experience through an efficient context caching mechanism. According to the official introduction from the Kimi Open Platform, Context Caching is a cutting-edge technology designed to significantly reduce the cost for users when requesting the same content by caching duplicate token content. Its working principle relies on intelligently identifying and storing previously processed text.

Moonshot AI, released by The Dark Side of the Moon, is the world's first large model to support an input length of 200,000 characters. Yang Zhilin, the founder of Moonshot AI, studied under top AI experts at CMU and is regarded as one of the candidates to be China's local 'OpenAI'. Moonshot AI has achieved breakthroughs in long text processing by optimizing storage, computing power, and network bandwidth, marking the entry of generative AI into the era of long text. Compared to other models, Moonshot AI avoids the 'Whale Model' and the 'Bee Model'.