DeepSeek is a reclusive research lab while Kimi is a rock'n'roll product team
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-15
An amusing inversion in Chinese AI: DeepSeek is fundamentally a basic research lab with a reclusive founder, while Kimi runs as a rock'n'roll product team with actual salespeople and PR — even its model architecture is "sexier". You'd expect the opposite. The author adds that DeepSeek is unrivaled in this regard, only Claude compares, and hopes DeepSeek eventually develops a model persona to compete with Claude.
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