Perplexity CEO said that they may use Kimi K2 for further training.

The CEO of the American AI search startup Perplexity, Aravind, stated on social media that based on the good performance of the Kimi K2 model, the company may use K2 for further training in the future. Previously, Perplexity also used DeepSeek R1 for model training. K2 is a trillion-parameter open source model recently released by Kimi, emphasizing its codeability and general Agent task capabilities.