Happy New Year! Maple got a huge model upgrade while you were celebrating. 🎉
For 2026 you get AI reasoning as good as the frontier labs AND privacy.
Why give your data away to other companies anymore?
“Privacy is great, but I need powerful AI."
Now you don't have to choose. Kimi K2 just launched in Maple AI. You get open reasoning that beats GPT-5 & Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks, and end-to-end encryption so your data stays under your control.
You can have it all.
Read the full announcement: https://blog.trymaple.ai/kimi-k2-in-maple-ai-open-reasoning-that-competes-with-chatgpt-and-claude/?ref=maple-ai-newsletter
Discussion
How is Maple doing in terms of image generation? I want to degoogle as much as possible but actually ended up paying for a subscription to gemini exclusively for the ability to create realistic fotos of my future projects (rendering). I was convinced because they allow people to generate a couple of images with their pro model while still in the free plan. Does Maple AI offer this possibility? I would switch, if only I could try it.
Probably not coming to Maple, unfortunately. Too much awful stuff can be done with it, and we already have lots of awesome, useful things we want to build in Maple aside from image gen.
Oh man that's a bummer, but I understand the challenge. To me it is the first instance where AI has changed drammatically how quickly and easily I can illustrate a space or piece of furniture to a client.
Would also like to see it happen and even kinda expected image generation would be available in the paid plans.
nostr:nprofile1qqsgafy9ye4j9p2x8vfmlq6equtpcg4m8ks7v545g0d3f7wwueeq5scprdmhxue69uhkuun9d3shjtnr94ehgetvd3shytnwv46z7qgewaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9ujxlkqd can you elaborate on the "awful" part and what challenges this brings up? I assume it'd be about implementing guardrails or even prohibiting certain kinds of prompts?
guardrails and always adjusting when people work around it. for that single feature, we choose to let other companies solve it for now.
Nice. I upgraded and had a conversation with Kimi K2. In 20 minutes I used 10% of my credits for the month. Way too much.