After DeepSeek R1, there's new model from China that outperforms Claude Sonnet 3.5 & GPT-4o. Kimi is a multimodal model with advanced Chain-of-thoughts reasoning and real-time web search.
From my anecdotal experience they're pretty similar. A couple of nice things with Kimi is that it can do internet searches, and you can paste images in for it to analyze.
Oh haha, I didn't realize that. I just kind of assumed it worked with the existing corpus of data. With Kimi it explicitly tells you when it troves websites and how many sites it looked at.