before you watch the World Cup final tonight, watch this 30-minute interview with Kimi founder Zhilin Yang
it's the clearest look I've seen at how K2 was actually built and where AI models go next
> why compute scaling still beats every other method
> why the "data flywheel" everyone talks about hasn't formed yet
> the real challenge in multimodality nobody mentions
> why K2 was closer to a base model — the real potential wasn't unlocked yet
this is only part of the interview, translated to English — and everything he hinted at just shipped as Kimi K3, 2.8 trillion parameters, the biggest open model ever
full breakdown below