PANews reported on December 16 that according to the public account "Kimi, the Dark Side of the Moon", today, Kimi released the visual thinking model k1. The k1 model is built on reinforcement learning technology, natively supports end-to-end image understanding and thought chain technology, and expands its capabilities to more basic science fields beyond mathematics. In the benchmark ability test of basic science disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, the performance of the first generation k1 model exceeded the global benchmark models OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.