alt Hacker News> Kimi Work is a Local Agent designed for deep workflows. It mounts your local folders, navigates the web autonomously via WebBridge, runs Python code in the background, and executes scheduled tasks.
It's clearly a dupe of Claude/Codex products (Codex especially, styling-wise), but I think Kimi's goal here is simply to appear on feature-parity with bigger labs. I doubt they'd want to invest much into designing a UI for "the future of agentic work" from the ground up.
Their bread and butter and claim-to-fame will continue to be low-cost, near-frontier models, for which they need to at least appear to have some app layer to plug into.
And, in some ways, duping is a great way to show people that even the app layer can be commoditized.
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Some paradigms are simply ergonomic. Sometimes there's only one UX people will accept.
No one would buy a car steered with pedals; even if that is better (hey planes do it!) - every car maker is "copying" steering wheels and putting them on their cars. Is it controversial? If not why not?
> duping is a great way to show people that even the app layer can be commoditized
Everyone is already cloning the app layer. There are 30+ claude-code clone, and codex work already cloned cowork, grok and gemini is doing the same.
> It's clearly a dupe of Claude/Codex products
Have you seen Kimi Code ?
It's hard to believe it's a different code than Claude Code.
In that case is there not some open harness that demand can coalesce around?
Yup they have a cost advantage.
They just need to be good enough and just copy.
Sorry american labs - it’s the beginning of the end.
So much is invested in the huge American AI companies that China undercutting them with clones that work almost as well can actually hurt the US economy.
They're at the point where copying can get people 90% of what they want anyway, the moat is drying up.
> Their bread and butter and claim-to-fame will continue to be low-cost, near-frontier models, ...
K3 is beating Fable on several benchmarks. So I take it you don't consider Fable 5 to be frontier.
What are the frontier models?
I think we need to stop using the term "dupe" as if there was some originality somewhere that was not built upon or copied what already existed.