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Kimi K2 Instruct vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 7.6% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
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NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B was developed by NVIDIA through customization of Meta's Llama 3.1 70B, designed to enhance performance for specific use cases and deployments. Built with NVIDIA's optimizations and fine-tuning expertise, it demonstrates how foundation models can be adapted for specialized applications.
9 months newer
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
NVIDIA
2024-10-01
Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
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Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Average Score:93.4%(+7.6%)
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Average Score:85.8%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
2023-12-01
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Kimi K2 Instruct
1 providers
Novita
Throughput: 45 tok/s
Latency: 0.95ms
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Avg Score:93.4%(+7.6%)
Providers:1
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Avg Score:85.8%
Providers:0