Mistral Mistral Large vs Moonshot AI Kimi Linear — side-by-side specs.
Mistral Mistral Large | Moonshot AI Kimi Linear | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Feb 26 2024 | Oct 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 48B |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Mistral Large shipped 583 days before Kimi Linear | |
Mistral Large and Kimi Linear do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Mistral Large shipped 583 days before Kimi Linear, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Mistral Large is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.