Kimi Possible

Author

Adam Smith
July 15, 2025

Good morning, nerds! If you're anything like us, you greet the day with a cup of coffee and a thirst for the latest AI breakthroughs. From self-driving cars to smart toasters that judge your breakfast choices, tech is reshaping everything.

But if you're not like us, maybe you're just out here hoping someone finally builds you an AI goth anime girlfriend.

What’s in store today:

  • Markets are a mixed bag

  • Moonshot releases new open source model: Kimi K2

  • Trending AI tools

  • Zuck bought another AI company this week

  • Fresh Business idea

Read time: 6 minutes

AI Markets

Data is provided by Google Finance as of market close 7/14/2025.

Markets Summary: Tech-focused ETFs were mixed yesterday as investors wait to hear how Trump’s tarrifs will play out across macro environment. However, mega-cap chipmakers remained resilient, buoyed by Nvidia’s $4trillion milestone and continued strong demand for AI chips. nalysts expect solid earnings ahead from Nvidia and peers like AMD and Broadcom, further underlining positive AI driven sentiment despite trade uncertainty.

Product Release

Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba, just lobbed a grenade into the AI wars with the release of Kimi K2, a new open source, low cost large language model that might just out code ChatGPT and Claude.

The Breakdown:

Moonshot is not playing it safe. Instead of locking things down like most companies in the United States, they are going fully open source with Kimi K2. That means developers around the world can dig in, experiment, and build on it with zero gatekeeping. It is a power move meant to win both community support and global market share.

Early benchmarks look strong. Kimi K2 is reportedly outperforming Claude Opus 4 and OpenAI’s GPT 4.1 in software development tasks. And the pricing is shocking. Just 15 cents per million input tokens and 2 dollars and 50 cents per million output tokens. That makes it one of the most affordable high performing models available today.

There are still a few speed bumps. Users have flagged hallucination issues, and Moonshot admits it is not perfect. But others, including MagicPath founder Pietro Schirano, say it is production ready and even prefer it over Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Kimi has been around since 2023, when its long text generation tool made headlines. But after a quiet 2025 and some stiff competition from cheaper rivals like DeepSeek, this release is clearly Moonshot’s attempt to get back in the spotlight.

Why This Matters to You:

Kimi K2 is not just another AI model. It is a sign that China’s AI industry is evolving fast and learning how to scale performance and accessibility. Moonshot is betting that open access and aggressive pricing can challenge the tech giants in the West.

If you are building with AI or trying to stay ahead of the curve, Kimi K2 deserves your attention. The competition just got more interesting, and the pressure is rising.

Trending Tools

DataRobot: A full-stack platform for deploying agentic AI across industries. Think predictive modeling meets autonomous business bots, with governance that won’t make compliance cry

Asana AI Studio: Asana’s new no-code playground lets you build custom AI agents to manage workflows, automate updates, and much more

Relevance AI: Build your own autonomous data agents (no coding!) that integrate with your stack, learn from your processes, and handle routine tasks

Business News

Meta just added another piece to its quest to dominate the world AI super intelligence by acquiring Play AI, a startup that builds ultra realistic synthetic voices. The whole team is joining Meta next week, and this is far from a one off. It is the latest in a string of AI acquisitions that suggest Meta is quietly building an empire.

The Breakdown:

Play AI specializes in voice generation that sounds convincingly human. Their platform lets users create synthetic voices with a few clicks, which fits perfectly with Meta’s ambitions for AI characters, chatbots, and voice enabled hardware. Meta confirmed the acquisition this week and will onboard the Play AI team immediately.

This follows Meta’s recent buyout of Scale AI, one of the most high profile data infrastructure companies in the AI world. And that came after poaching top AI talent from OpenAI and building a new AI research team under the Superintelligence Labs umbrella. Meta is spending big in 2025, with capital expenditures estimated between 65 and 72 billion dollars.

The Play AI deal also folds in Johan Schalkwyk, who previously led Google’s voice efforts and joined Meta to run its next generation voice strategy. Play AI brings with it not just talent, but tooling that could accelerate the deployment of AI voices across Meta’s platforms.

Why It Matters

Meta is not just buying startups. It is assembling a full stack AI operation from infrastructure and model training to data pipelines and now voice synthesis. The Play AI acquisition plugs right into that pipeline, giving Meta an edge in the voice interface race.

If the past few months are any clue, Meta wants to own every layer of the AI experience. At this pace, Meta might run out of AI companies to buy in a couple weeks.

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