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Moonshot AI

Chinese AI company behind the Kimi models

14recordsFirst record 2024Latest Jul 28, 2026

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 as open weights

An open-weight model in the 3-trillion-parameter class. A prime example of the pattern in which scale grows while licenses narrow

Yang Zhilin (杨植麟, Moonshot AI)
Yang Zhilin says K2 was open-sourced because Moonshot isn't yet fully ahead

The person involved makes explicit that open-weight decisions are a function of competitive ranking, not ideology. The most direct explanation yet of the motive behind China's open-source strategy

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code

An open-weight coding model that puts token efficiency up front

Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI raises $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation

Raised $3.9 billion over 6 months. A case showing that open-weight distribution works commercially

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6

An open-weight model entered the 80% range on SWE-Bench Verified. No independent party checking the result is named

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5

The point where the K2 line shifted from text to native multimodality, and the arrival of an open-weight agent swarm

MultimodalOfficial
Yang Zhilin (杨植麟) and others, Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin explains the open-source choice in a K2 Thinking AMA

A statement in which a Chinese lab justified open weights in normative language, and a record of a party directly denying the low-cost narrative

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2 Thinking

An open-weight reasoning agent trained to interleave thinking with tool calls; Moonshot claims it sustains 200–300 sequential tool calls without human intervention

Moonshot AI
Kimi Linear

The first to beat full attention in a fair comparison; up to 75% less KV cache and up to 6× faster decoding at 1M context

Moonshot AI
Kimi K2

Muon validated at 1T scale

Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 (1T / 32B active), modified MIT

The first 1T-class open-weight model, and a new type of license with revenue and scale thresholds

DeepSeek, Moonshot
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1 (MIT); Kimi K1.5 arrives the same day

Reasoning models were immediately reproduced as open weights, and 2 Chinese labs declared their pursuit of the frontier on the same day

Moonshot AI, Tsinghua (Qin et al.)
Mooncake

Tiered KV cache management grounded in a production service

Yang Zhilin (杨植麟, Moonshot AI)
Yang Zhilin frames AI as scaling laws and long context as key to AGI

The first systematic statement by a Chinese lab founder declaring long context a core pillar of the path to AGI. Supplied the language for the 2024 reshaping of China's LLM race into a long-context race