Is Kimi K3 Better Than Opus? It Was Until Opus 5

I get that this is a nice benchmark in that the result can be judged visually, but it seems extraordinarily far from what people actually use these models for.

K3 was seriously impressive, but Opus 5 definitely raised the bar again.

Insert a meme "The world's new most powerful AI model"

Gemini 3.6 Flash seems like the clear perf/$ leader here.