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KIMI models overtook frontier models in OpenCode usage, prompting a paid subscription.
KIMI models overtook frontier models in OpenCode usage, prompting a paid subscription.
For a four-week period in February, OpenCode saw KIMI models used more than Anthropic's Sonnet and Opus combined, the first time an open source model family had overtaken frontier models in their global usage data. This helped trigger the decision to launch a paid subscription product.
- Speaker
- Jay V
- Source timestamp
- 8:08
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