There’s a thing that happens in the AI space, reliably, almost rhythmically: a new model drops, the benchmarks are suspiciously curated, the blog post reads like it was written by a marketing department that just discovered the word “unprecedented,” and within 48 hours someone on Reddit has found the caveats buried in appendix C. Rinse, repeat.

So when Moonshot AI put out Kimi K2.7 Code this week, I was half-expecting the usual. What I got was something a bit different, and I find myself cautiously impressed, not by the model itself, which I haven’t tested properly, but by the way it was presented.