> Claude Code Opus Kimi K2.5 is quite literally just a few months behind, at worst. In many cases it already outperforms Opus 4.5 (and reliably outperforms So

> Claude Code Opus Kimi K2.5 is quite literally just a few months behind, at worst. In many cases it already outperforms Opus 4.5 (and reliably outperforms Sonnet), and it's not really that far from Opus 4.6. I'm less familiar with the video/image side of things. > Another big problem with the open models is that the ecosystem targets consumer GPUs No, this is something of a misconception. It's quite difficult to run a model like K2.5 truly locally. But any nation-state or sufficiently large corporation can get its hands on HPC clusters and run it freely, without needing permission from anybody.