Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI updates Kimi chatbot to offer capabilities akin to OpenAI o1

Kimi Chat Explore is touted by Moonshot AI as being able to ‘think and reflect’ in response to user queries

Ben Jiangin Beijing
Moonshot AI founder and chief executive Yang Zhilin expects AI applications to have “increasingly strong reasoning capabilities”. Photo: Shutterstock
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Moonshot AI on Friday rolled out the updated version of its conversational chatbot, Kimi Chat, that has improved problem-solving capabilities, akin to the advances shown by the new OpenAI o1 large language model (LLM).
Kimi Chat Explore is touted by Moonshot AI as being able to “think and reflect” in response to user queries and also has an expanded online search capacity, the Beijing-based start-up said in a statement.
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