Kimi's Pretraining and the Model Release Race

sarahcat21 · x · 2026-07-17

[Repost Core Info] This post relays a perspective on LLM pretraining: even if the high-level roadmap seems to have converged, the details remain crucial—especially architecture and hardware co-design, optimization, and data.

The post also emphasizes that Kimi's pretraining team is considered very strong, with the author praising them for building a "beautiful monster model." The cited content mentions that the next week might enter a model release race, with rumors of new releases from ByteDance, DeepSeek, and GLM.

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