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Kimi K3.1 Pro

A new AI language model from Chinese company Moonshot AI, competitive with top US frontier models.

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New modelsKimi K3.1 Pro, a Chinese AI model anyone will be able to download, nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5Herald of AI

Kimi K3.1 Pro, a Chinese AI model anyone will be able to download, nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5

Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter model scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, three points behind Claude Opus 5.5, costs half as much, and its full weights — the files that let anyone run it themselves — arrive by November 4.

Oct 23, 2026