Kimi 3.1 is the best released Chinese model but progression over 3.0 in 3 months is underwhelming. It’s Opus5.0/GPT-6 Sol level rather than Opus5.5/6.1 level. Not bad, but DeepSeek has clearly progressed faster with its RL than Moonshot. In cyber & some SWE tasks, 1017 is actually better. The next DS flash update will catch up to this on SWE & work tasks. So then what do you do if you are Moonshot? Well, I wonder if it’s just pouring most of its energy on the larger K4. Among top Chinese labs, it seems best at pre training & worst @ post training. So it’s best bet is keep scaling up. Its models are not efficient like DeepSeek models. It has never pretended otherwise. Even at current px level, it’s overwhelmed by demand so why should it charge less? You should be using DeepSeek if you are just doing regular work stuff.