# Nathan Lambert — Podcast: Kimi K3.1 Pro, the new cyber reality, and Muse musings

- Company: Nathan Lambert (interconnects.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-25T11:49:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/podcast-kimi-k31-pro-the-new-cyber
- Record: https://forck.live/items/27506-podcast-kimi-k3-1-pro-the-new-cyber-reality-and-muse-musings
- Subject: Commentary
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Kimi K3.1 Pro, K3, GPT-6 Astra, Claude 5.5, Muse Wonder Full

Nathan Lambert and Florian Brand used an Interconnects podcast to weigh why Kimi K3.1 Pro drew a mixed reaction despite top benchmark scores. Brand says the release felt different from earlier Kimi drops, partly because the company ran a bigger social media campaign that allegedly paid people to post about the model without disclosing it. Lambert calls that bad form and notes one person tweeted a screenshot of press instructions telling recipients not to say it was a paid promotion, which he says no one has corroborated. Brand says the model creator gets a few weeks of exclusive access before releasing weights, and that K3.1 Pro has about two weeks of exclusivity, with weights promised by November 4th. Lambert points to an Artificial Analysis number placing it ahead of GPT-6 Astra, but says other results look jagged, including Terminal-Bench Science, where he says it trails GPT-6 Astra by 20 points. Brand attributes the gap to Artificial Analysis benchmarks being short-horizon while ProgramBench is long and explorative, and to Kimi's RL training leaning exploitative rather than explorative.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.interconnects.ai/p/podcast-kimi-k31-pro-the-new-cyber:

> This time, which also got some criticism, they launched a bigger social media campaign, which allegedly also involved paying people to post about the model without disclosing.

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