Kimi is also a lot more willing to do whatever tf you ask it such as vulnerability scanning or PoC development. Or reverse engineering.

Plus on prem can go find abliterated models.

It's an advantage that keeps me coming back for local models when I can't get around Claude or Codex's little blockers.

It's worked out. Definitely not frontier but it's the largest model that works reliably on our hardware. We also try some smaller ones when they come out.