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Kafue Gorge Upper hydroelectric plant

The Kafue Gorge Upper hydroelectric plant is a 990 MW hydroelectric station on the Kafue River in Zambia's Southern Province, commissioned in 1972 and owned by state utility ZESCO.

Kagerō-class destroyer

The Kagerō-class destroyer (陽炎型) was a class of eighteen fleet destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1939 and 1941, designed around heavy torpedo armament.

Kaggle

Kaggle is an online platform for data science and machine learning founded by Anthony Goldbloom in April 2010, hosting prediction competitions, datasets, and notebooks, and acquired by Google in 2017.

Kagi (鍵)

Kagi (鍵) is an American technology company founded by Vladimir Prelovac in Palo Alto in 2018, operating a paid, ad-free search engine and the Orion browser.

Kagome fiber

Kagome fiber is a hollow-core optical fiber whose cladding of glass struts forms a kagome lattice; it guides light by inhibited coupling, first reported in 2002.

Kah‐Wee Ang

Kah-Wee Ang is a Singapore-based electrical engineer and tenured associate professor at the National University of Singapore who researches 2D semiconductor devices, memristors, and ferroelectric transistors.

Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station

Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station (KhSTPP), also called NTPC Kahalgaon, is a 2,340 MW coal-fired power station of NTPC Limited at Kahalgaon in Bihar, India, built in two stages.

Kahneman–Tversky optimization

Kahneman–Tversky optimization (KTO) is a preference-optimization method for aligning large language models, introduced by Kawin Ethayarajh and colleagues in February 2024 as an alternative to DPO.

Kahului Airport

Kahului Airport (IATA: OGG), also known as Kahului International Airport, is the primary commercial airport of Maui, Hawaii, and the second busiest airport in the state.

KAI KF-21 Boramae

The KAI KF-21 Boramae (보라매, KF-X) is a twin-engine 4.5-generation multirole fighter developed by Korea Aerospace Industries for South Korea with Indonesia, with first deliveries to the air force in 2026.

Kai Li

Kai Li (李凯) is a Princeton University computer scientist and National Academy of Engineering member known for distributed shared memory, deduplication storage, and co-leading ImageNet.

KAI T-50 Golden Eagle

The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle, or KTX-2, is a South Korean supersonic lead-in fighter trainer built by Korea Aerospace Industries with Lockheed Martin, first flown in 2002.

Kai Tak Airport (启德机场)

Kai Tak Airport, also known as Kai Tak International Airport, was Hong Kong's airport in Kowloon Bay from 1925 until 1998, famous for its dramatic Runway 13 approach.

Kai Zhu

Kai Zhu is a physicist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies known for research on perovskite solar cells, named a Materials Research Society fellow in 2026.

Kai-Fu Lee (李开复)

Kai-Fu Lee, also known as Li Kaifu (李开复), is a Taiwanese-born computer scientist and venture capitalist who leads Sinovation Ventures and previously served as president of Google China.

Kaidan-in

Kaidan-in (戒壇院) is a Buddhist temple in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, preserving the ordination platform established at Kanzeonji in 761 and counted among the Three Ordination Platforms of the Realm.

Kaidi Ecological and Environmental Technology

Kaidi Ecological and Environmental Technology was a Wuhan-based biomass power developer, once among China's largest with 44 plants, that defaulted in 2018 and was delisted in 2020.

Kaifeng power station

Kaifeng power station (国电投开封发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Shunhe District, Kaifeng, Henan, China, operating two 630 MW supercritical units under State Power Investment Corporation.

Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant

Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Kaiga Generating Station, is an Indian nuclear power station in Karnataka with four 220 MWe pressurized heavy water reactors.

Kailuan Group

Kailuan Group (开滦集团) is a Chinese state-owned coal mining and coal-chemical company in Tangshan, Hebei, tracing its origins to the Kaiping Mining Bureau of 1878.

Kaimei

Kaimei (海明) was a Japanese floating oscillating water column wave energy converter, described as the first large-scale device deployed at sea, tested off Yamagata in 1978–1980 and 1985–1986.

Kaiming He (何恺明)

Kaiming He (何恺明) is a Chinese computer scientist at MIT known for ResNet, Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, and He initialization; his ResNet paper is the 21st century's most cited.

Kainji Dam

Kainji Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Niger River in Kainji, Niger State, Nigeria, commissioned in 1968 as the country's first large dam on the Niger, with a capacity of 760 MW.

KaiOS

KaiOS is a web-based mobile operating system for smart feature phones, developed by KaiOS Technologies from Mozilla's Firefox OS and running apps as HTML5 web applications.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, or Gedächtniskirche) is a Protestant church ensemble on the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg, combining an 1891–1895 church ruin with modern buildings by Egon Eiermann.

Kaiten (回天)

Kaiten (回天), a manned suicide torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was piloted by a single crewman in the final year of World War II.

Kaiyuan power station

Kaiyuan power station, also known as the Honghe power plant, is a coal-fired power station in Kaiyuan, Yunnan, China, with about 1,300 MW of capacity.

Kajaki Dam (د کجکي بند)

The Kajaki Dam (د کجکي بند) is a 90 m high dam on the Helmand River in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in the 1950s with United States funding.

Kakaku.com

Kakaku.com (価格.com, "price.com") is a Japanese price-comparison and consumer-review website launched in 1997 by Mitsuaki Makino and operated by Tokyo-listed Kakaku.com, Inc., which also runs the restaurant review platform Tabelog.

Kakao (카카오)

Kakao (카카오), formed by the 2014 merger with Daum Communications as Daum Kakao, is a South Korean internet company whose KakaoTalk messenger is used by over 92% of Koreans, spanning payments, gaming, music, and AI.