product · May 14, 2026
Moonshot AI Founder Details $4.6 Million Training Cost for Kimi K2 Model
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Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin released a 40-minute video on May 14, 2026, outlining the training process for the Kimi K2 model. The development utilized $4.6 million in costs, incorporating linear attention mechanisms and sub-agent architectures to optimize resource use. Kimi K2 outperformed GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus in an 8-model real-time programming competition held the prior week. Yang Zhilin, born in 1992 and a CMU PhD graduate, co-authored Transformer-XL and XLNet during prior roles at Google Brain and Meta.
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