Kimi-K2-Thinking

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What Kimi-K2-Thinking is

1. Model Introduction Kimi K2 Thinking is the latest, most capable version of open-source thinking model. Starting with Kimi K2, we built it as a thinking agent that reasons step-by-step while dynamically invoking tools. It sets a new state-of-the-art on Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), BrowseComp, and other benchmarks by dramatically scaling multi-step reasoning depth and maintaining stable tool-use across 200–300 sequential calls. At the same time, K2 Thinking is a native INT4 quantization model with 256k context window, achieving lossless reductions in inference latency and GPU memory usage. Key Features - Deep Thinking & Tool Orchestration: End-to-end trained to interleave chain-of-thought reasoning with function calls, enabling autonomous research, coding, and writing workflows that last hundreds of steps without drift. - Native INT4 Quantization: Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) is employed in post-training stage to achieve lossless 2x speed-up in low-latency mode. - Stable Long-Horizon Agency: Maintains coherent goal-directed behavior across up to 200–300 consecutive tool invocations, surpassing prior models that degrade after 30–50 steps. 2. Model Summary 3. Evaluation Results Reasoning Tasks General Tasks Agentic Search Tasks Coding Tasks 1. To ensure a fast, lightweight experience, we selectively employ a subset of tools and reduce the number of tool call steps under the chat mode on kimi.com. As a result, chatting on kimi.com may not reproduce our benchmark scores. Our agentic mode will be updated soon to reflect the full capabilities of K2 Thinking. 2. Testing Details: 2.1. All benchmarks were evaluated at temperature = 1.0 and 256 k context length for K2 Thinking, except for SciCode, for which we followed the official temperature setting of 0.0. 2.2. HLE (no tools), AIME25, HMMT25, and GPQA were capped at a 96k thinking-token budget, while IMO-Answer Bench, LiveCodeBench and OJ-Bench were capped at a 128k thinking-token budget. Longform Writing was capped at a 32k completion-token budget. 2.3. For AIME and HMMT (no tools), we report the average of 32 runs (avg@32). For AIME and HMMT (with Python), we report the average of 16 runs (avg@16). For IMO-Answe

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$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"kimi-k2-thinking","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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