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> on the top of the largest open models list

Moonshot (true to their name?) has always lead in terms of releasing the largest among open weight LLMs.

> Moonshot is going to need the USD 500 million reportedly raised earlier this year to run this model.

Think Moonshot, as a spin-out, can expect backing from its former parent, Alibaba? I don't think they would be particularly worried about finances, if the Kimi K series continues to outperform the Qwen Max series (which seems to be the case; while Kimi is also super popular in China).



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