alt Hacker News> This is probably kimi trying to protect their brand from bargain basement providers that dont properly represent what the models are capable of.
I'm curious what exactly they mean by this...
"because we learned the hard way that open-sourcing a model is only half the battle."
I'd take it at face value. Since they release open weights they would appear to genuinely want other providers to serve this as well as themselves, but the benefit of this depends on it being served accurately.