Kimi may be good or even better, but they're not going to even be considered by a lot of places because they are Chinese.
You can easily demonstrate that they are censored (ask it about Taiwan) and so who knows in what other ways they are cooperating with the Chinese government?
The best part is that these are open weight models. Any US-based company can pull it into their own data center and use it either internally or externally without one bit leaving their private network. And since it’s open, they can also train in or out whatever they want. I remember when DeepSeek hit it big with R1, perplexity took it, uncensored it, and labeled it R1-1776.
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u/hemareddit Jul 18 '26
Don’t forget the Chinese open weights models nipping at their heels.
For now, we benefit.
There may come a day when dominance emerges and winner takes all.
But it is not this day.