Gemini 1.0 Ultra and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemini 1.0 Ultra shipped 418 days before Kimi-VL, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra is proprietary, while Kimi-VL is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 1.0 Ultra and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.