so not only DeepSeek, but ByteDance and Alibaba are launching new models around CNY.
and they are all rushing out red envelopes to get people to use during new year period.
I've been using Kimi a lot in the past couple of days. Really good. I actually find it to be the best free access LLM I tried online. Much better than current DeepSeek and Gemini-3 (at least the free version available online).
This is literally the first time you had a Chinese AI model available that's almost as good as the latest American moderns.
I remember when R1 came out, o3 came out right afterward and o3 was just leagues ahead of R1 in the answers. As far as I can see, OpenAI isn't holding things back anymore so GPT 5.2 is the best they got and it's only a little better than Kimi based on the scores.