Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed(kimi.ai)
1079 points by Jowsey 2 days ago | 668 comments
tl;dr: Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro is a new 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context, posting competitive results against Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on coding (65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0), 3D/CAD generation, and financial reasoning benchmarks. A "Highspeed" variant runs 2-3× faster, and the team deliberately stripped cyber-related data from training to cap offensive security capabilities before release. Available now via Kimi.ai and API, with full weights to be released by Nov 4, 2026.
HN Discussion:
  • ~Model has identity confusion and leaks system prompt artifacts during reasoning
  • ↑Stripping cybersecurity data is a smart alignment approach that's hard to reverse
  • ↓Questions the coherence and effectiveness of removing cybersecurity training data
  • ↑Benchmarks confirm it competes with or beats top US models at lower cost
  • ↑China's gap with US frontier AI has shrunk dramatically given Moonshot's small size