Moonshot AI Kimi-Dev vs xAI Grok‑1 — side-by-side specs.
Moonshot AI Kimi-Dev | xAI Grok‑1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | xAI |
| Release date | Jun 2025 | Nov 3 2023 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 72B | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Grok‑1 shipped 576 days before Kimi-Dev | |
Kimi-Dev and Grok‑1 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Grok‑1 shipped 576 days before Kimi-Dev, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.