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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Kimi Chat

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Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Moonshot AI
Kimi Chat
Overview
CompanyMistralMoonshot AI
Release dateApr 29 2026Oct 2023
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
128B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi Chat shipped 941 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Kimi Chat?

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Kimi Chat on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi Chat shipped 941 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model; Kimi Chat is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
When was Kimi Chat released?
Kimi Chat was released by Moonshot AI on Oct 2023.
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Kimi Chat open source?
Mistral Medium 3.5 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Kimi Chat is a proprietary model released by Moonshot AI.

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