As global competition in the field of artificial intelligence intensifies, domestic AI models are rapidly emerging. Recently, the three domestic AI contenders—DeepSeek, Kimi, and MiniMax—successfully launched new versions, demonstrating potential to compete with OpenAI's GPT series. On January 20, DeepSeek officially released DeepSeek-R1 and simultaneously open-sourced the model weights. DeepSeek-R1 heavily utilized reinforcement learning techniques during its post-training phase.

Recently, Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd. announced a significant technological upgrade for its intelligent assistant Kimi, introducing the brand new k1.5 Multimodal Thinking Model. This model has reached industry-leading levels in multimodal reasoning and general reasoning capabilities, marking another breakthrough for Kimi in the field of artificial intelligence.

On January 15, 2025, Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd. announced the official release of the new multimodal image understanding model moonshot-v1-vision-preview. This model enhances the multimodal capabilities of the moonshot-v1 model series, helping Kimi better understand the world. The Vision model boasts powerful image recognition capabilities, accurately identifying complex details and subtle differences in images, distinguishing similar yet different objects, whether they are food or animals.

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.

The AI chat tool Kimi is currently beta testing its innovative feature 'Kimi Creation Space', an AI video generation service that has attracted widespread attention in the industry. According to Sina Technology, this feature is currently in a gray testing phase and provides users with a new way of creative expression. Insiders revealed that 'Kimi Creation Space' will be launched in the bottom area of the Kimi official website homepage. Users can create personalized music videos using 12 preset style templates and custom creation features. Notably, users will receive 100 seconds of free video generation each day.

Kimi Technology Co., Ltd. and Tsinghua University's MADSys laboratory have jointly released an open-source project called Mooncake, aimed at collaboratively building a large model inference architecture centered around KVCache. In June 2024, both parties released the design plan for the Mooncake inference system based on Kimi, which significantly enhances inference throughput through PD separation and a storage-computation architecture, garnering widespread attention in the industry.

In an era of rapid development in artificial intelligence, the intelligence level of large models continues to improve, but the challenges of inference system efficiency are becoming increasingly apparent. Addressing high inference loads, reducing inference costs, and shortening response times has become an important issue faced by the industry. Kimi has collaborated with the MADSys laboratory at Tsinghua University to launch the KVCache-based Mooncake inference system design plan, which will be officially released in June 2024. The Mooncake inference system enhances efficiency through its innovative approach.

Kimi Smart Assistant, a subsidiary of Moon's Dark Side, announces the evolution of the Kimi Exploration Version, introducing three major inference abilities: Enhanced Search Intent, Source Analysis, and Chain Thinking. The Enhanced Search Intent capability allows Kimi Exploration Version to convert abstract and ambiguous questions into specific queries, expanding users' true search intentions. The Source Analysis capability enables Kimi Exploration Version to filter through a vast number of search results to select sources that are more authoritative and reliable, providing traceable links down to the paragraph level. The Chain Thinking capability allows Kimi Exploration Version to handle reasoning based on a chain of thought.

The Dark Side of the Moon Kimi Smart Assistant has announced the launch of its next-generation mathematical reasoning model, k0-math. The k0-math model has shown outstanding performance in multiple mathematical benchmark tests, surpassing OpenAI's o1 series models, o1-mini and o1-preview, in four mathematical benchmark assessments including middle school entrance exams, college entrance exams, graduate school entrance exams, and MATH competitions that include introductory problems.

Tongyi AI, a subsidiary of Alibaba, publicly clarified recent marketing investment data for AI products that was circulated online. Previously, it was reported that multiple AI products had advertising expenditures reaching the hundred million level in the third quarter, which attracted significant attention, particularly regarding specific figures related to Tongyi Qianwen. According to Tongyi AI's official response, the rumored figures of 4.5 million investment for Tongyi Qianwen in Q3 and 900,000 in the first 20 days of October are severely inconsistent with the actual situation. The official statement clearly indicated that the actual investment is far lower than the rumored figures, but did not disclose the real investment amount.

Kimi AI Assistant has recently launched a major update, introducing the long-awaited voice call feature for users. This groundbreaking development not only enriches the ways users interact with AI but also provides innovative solutions for learning and work scenarios. The core of the new feature lies in its diverse application scenarios and personalized user experience. Building on basic voice conversations, Kimi cleverly integrates a real-time subtitle display function, allowing users to intuitively view the dialogue content in the voice interface, significantly enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of communication. To make this...

Recently, many users reported that Kimi has begun internal testing of the "Exploration Version". Users who have obtained testing privileges can enter " / " in the input box to see the new feature options. From the screenshots of the Kimi Exploration Version interface, the page prompts: Enter " / " to use Kimi Exploration Version to solve complex search problems. It is worth mentioning that since it is in functional testing, each account with testing privileges can only use it 5 times a day. It is understood that Kimi Exploration Version has significantly improved its intelligence and reasoning capabilities.

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...

The latest release by QuestMobile, the '2024 AI Agent Application Insights Semi-Annual Report', shows that the monthly active users of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have exceeded 66 million, marking the rapid development and popularization of AI technology at the application level. The report highlights that AI applications have formed eight major categories, including emotional companionship, office efficiency, education and learning, lifestyle assistance, entertainment and leisure, copywriting, and industry consulting, with commercialization paths now opened.

Kimi Smart Assistant, a subsidiary of Beijing Yue's Dark Side Technology Co., Ltd., recently announced that its Kimi API now supports online search functionality. This marks a significant enhancement in the interactive experience, allowing users to retrieve information from the Internet via the API. This update to the Kimi API enables developers to leverage this feature, allowing applications to 'surf the web' by automatically performing online searches and providing answers when encountering questions during conversations.

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.

Recently, Kimi Open Platform launched the moonshot-v1-auto Model API, which automatically selects the optimal model to save costs. Additionally, it has updated features such as account password login, phone number replacement, and balance warning functions to enhance user experience. In the future, a connected search function will be introduced to strengthen API capabilities and provide developers with more innovative opportunities.

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.