I just saw some news: someone in the AI circle has also bowed their head today. Kimi issued an apology statement about the quota issue for the K3.1 Pro subscription plan 😂
Here’s what happened: previously, many users found that their quota was being consumed for no apparent reason, and usage came with all kinds of restrictions. This time Kimi directly admitted that it was all a platform issue and should have been fixed earlier. The compensation plan now is: reset all subscription users’ quota once, restoring 25% of the monthly quota, roughly one week’s worth of usage. If your usage hadn’t reached 25% before, then it gets zeroed out and recalculated from scratch. It’s expected that by the end of today Pacific Time, the progress bar will show the adjustment.
Besides apologizing and giving quota, Kimi also changed its tune, saying it will reduce unnecessary “sub-agent calls” and “output length” to lower quota consumption. In plain language, it means the backend model was shuffling things around too much and spitting out too much fluff, so the compute costs really couldn’t be sustained; now they’re starting to simplify backend operations.
My personal view: this is the aftereffect of the big-model race to the bottom. In the early stage, to grab users and boost retention, they opened permissions wide and gave away quota like crazy; once real user volume came in and inference costs were calculated, they realized the numbers just didn’t add up, so they could only start tightening back up. This kind of move—first throttling usage, then apologizing and resetting after getting criticized—though it gives users a bit of relief, also exposes that the platform still isn’t very mature in allocating compute resources.
For regular users, when using various big models now, you really have to be mentally prepared for them to get “shrunk” at any time. The wool you got in the early days will eventually have to be paid back through quota limits.
Everyone, do you use Kimi a lot in daily life? Do you think the quotas of the various AI large models are still enough to use? Let’s chat in the comments ~
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