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Kimi K2 Thinking vs GPT-5.4

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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.4
Overview
CompanyMoonshot AIOpenAI
Release dateNov 6 2025Mar 5 2026
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
1T
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
92.8%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
71.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi K2 Thinking shipped 119 days before GPT-5.4

Which is better: Kimi K2 Thinking or GPT-5.4?

Kimi K2 Thinking and GPT-5.4 are evenly matched across the benchmarks they both publish. Kimi K2 Thinking shipped 119 days before GPT-5.4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi K2 Thinking is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5.4 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.

Frequently asked questions

When was Kimi K2 Thinking released?
Kimi K2 Thinking was released by Moonshot AI on Nov 6 2025.
When was GPT-5.4 released?
GPT-5.4 was released by OpenAI on Mar 5 2026.
Is Kimi K2 Thinking or GPT-5.4 open source?
Kimi K2 Thinking is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. GPT-5.4 is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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