Perplexity CEO: May Use Kimi K2 for Post-Training in the Future

According to a report by Jinse Finance, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of the US-based AI search startup Perplexity, stated on social media that due to the strong performance of the Kimi K2 model, the company may use K2 for further training in the future. Previously, DeepSeek R1 was also used by Perplexity for model training. K2 is a trillion-parameter open-source model recently released by Moonshot AI’s Kimi, emphasizing coding capabilities and general agent task performance.