The US just banned its best AI model, Fable 5. Kimi K2.7, a free Chinese one is already right behind it.
The open-weight model Kimi K2.7's just scored second on ErdosBench. Better than GPT-5.5 xhigh.
ErdosBench evaluates models on hand-crafted proof problems that aren't in any training data, so it's measuring real reasoning.
The single best model on the planet is locked away, while a free, open-weight Chinese one is sitting right behind it and ahead of everything else out of the US.
> LLMs are commoditizing
> Startups like Strawberry will soon be post-training and hosting our own open-weight model forks
> US keeps torching its trade relationships and undermining its AI companies
> China moves towards becoming the world's de facto economic superpower
I really hope Fable becomes globally accessible again, it's a great model and the world should be able to use it.
Blocking your own best model while open Chinese ones catch up makes no sense.
Kimi 2.7 ranked 2nd after Fable 5 and before GPT-5 xhigh
We have re-run our ErdosBench smoke test on 14 problems with Kimi 2.7, Qwen 3.7 Max, Grok 4.3 and compared it with the top performers from previous runs.
Kimi 2.7 is amazingly good. More below.