Aravind, the Chief Executive Officer of the American AI search startup Perplexity, announced that the company intends to employ the Kimi K2 model for subsequent training phases, given its exceptional performance. Prior to this decision, Perplexity relied on the DeepSeek R1 model for its training needs. Kimi K2, an open-source model with a trillion parameters developed by Dark Side of the Moon Technology, boasts robust code processing capabilities and versatile Agent task functionalities.