All this in just the last week. Insane.

Kimi's the only Chinese lab that actually got to Fable level. So yeah, I've got high hopes their next model hits Opus 5.5, maybe even beats it.

It's coming. The best open model in the world.

I want to get into local models.

Since a lot of you asked, let me explain what I meant. AI models today need insane amounts of data and compute to learn language, and I think a big part of that cost comes from training them on languages that hide their own structure, like English. Chinese has the same problem, which is why US and Chinese labs are stuck in the same race for more data and bigger clusters. English is full of irregular forms like go/went and mouse/mice that follow no rule and have to be memorized. Its spelling doesn't match its sound, as in through, though, and tough. Related meanings share no visible link, so write, book, and office look like strangers. Relationships between words are hidden in word order, where moving one word can flip the meaning. Phrasal verbs like get up, get over, and get by can't be understood from their parts, words like set and run carry dozens of meanings the model has to guess between, and the history is broken, since Old English is unreadable today. The fix is to train the core model on a language where the structure is explicit, so it learns more from less, and then add other languages on top so it can speak with anyone. That language is fully vowelized Arabic. Its root system means kataba, kaatib, maktoob, and maktaba all grow from one root, so the model learns a whole family of meanings at once. Its regular patterns let the model infer words it has never seen. Case endings mark every word's role on the word itself, so relationships are written instead of guessed, and because meaning holds when word order changes, the model learns meaning rather than position. New words are derived by clear rules instead of random borrowing. Texts from the 7th century are still readable today, giving 1,400 years of continuity, and they come with an annotated heritage of commentaries, lexicons, and formal reasoning methods, meaning the model gets the text plus how to understand it. Nobody has seriously tested this yet. Personally, I'm aiming to train a model this way once I have the resources.

What if AI's biggest bottleneck isn't compute or data, but English itself?

Kimi is the only Chinese lab that can deliver Opus 5.5-level performance.

The world isn't ready for what Kimi is about to drop.

Always happy when my work helps someone.

The quality, human experience, and shared memory throughout this review are things AI just can't replicate.

Easily one of my best calls this year.

Btw, this is less of a competition between Claude Duet and Grok Bot, and more of a battle between Claude and Grok models.