alt Hacker NewsI've always been surprised Kimi doesn't get more attention than it does. It's always stood out to me in terms of creativity, quality... has been my favorite model for awhile (but I'm far from an authority)
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Dirt cheap on openrouter for how good it is, too. Really hoping that 2.6 carries on that tradition.
It's also one of the few models that seem capable of drawing an SVG clock
Kagi has it as an option in its Assistant thing, where there is naturally a lot of searching and summarizing results. I've liked its output there and in general when asked for prose that isn't in the list/Markdown-heavy "LLM style." It's hard to do a confident comparison, but it's seemed bold in arranging the output to flow well, even when that took surgery on the original doc(s). Sometimes the surgery's needed e.g. to connect related ideas the inputs treated as separate, or to ensure it really replies to the request instead of just dumping info that's somehow related to it.
I remember when the first K2 dropped
It was the best creative writer by some distance
Maybe because it's a bit of like unleashing a chaos monkey on your codebase? I tried it locally (K2.5 72B) and couldn't get anything useful.
It’s good, but it’s not quite Claude level. And their API has constant capacity issues.
Price/quality is absolutely bonkers though. I loaded $40 a few weeks/months ago and I haven’t even gone through half of it.