Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate


Kimi K2 Thinking outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, sparking comparisons to DeepSeek's breakthrough. — SCMP

A new reasoning model developed by a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up – with its performance exceeding OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in a number of metrics – has fanned fresh debate about another DeepSeek moment and the trajectory of America’s AI supremacy.

Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3bil (RM13.64bil) and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”.

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