The Biggest Benchmark in AI Just Updated, Dealing a Major Blow to a Chinese Contender

Last week, Kimi K3.1 Pro, an LLM from the Beijing, China-based company Moonshot AI, debuted to a surprising amount of fanfare, particularly if you care about benchmarks, which are meant to be standardized measurements for models’ capabilities. It charted at a very respectable—in fact somewhat shocking—fourth place on the marquee Artificial Analysis benchmark called Intelligence Index v4. It also claimed the top spot on Artificial Analysis’…