The success of Kimi K2 is no accident. The unfortunate reality in AI is that user experiences haven't yet fully caught up to raw model capabilities. Experiences have plateaued. There are only so many coding assistants, research tools, or agents you can realistically offer, and most perform well even with less powerful models. So, when companies face the choice between paying $15 per million tokens or $3 for a solution that genuinely gets the job done, they'll typically choose the lower-cost option, unless their use case demands extreme specialization.