Moonshot AI
Beijing-based frontier AI company behind the Kimi assistant, open-weight Kimi foundation models, multimodal and reasoning systems, and agent products.
September 20261
Sep 3, 2026Moonshot confidentially files for Hong Kong IPOAnnouncedIPO
Reuters reported that Moonshot confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO and was targeting a roughly $3 billion offering.
July 20265
Jul 29, 2026Moonshot closes $3.5B financing at $35B valuationFunding round
Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.
Jul 27, 2026Kimi K3 full weights publishedOpen weights
Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.
Jul 20, 2026Moonshot pauses Kimi subscriptions amid K3 demandNews
Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.
Jul 16, 2026Kimi K3 releasedModel release
Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.
Jul 16, 2026Kimi K3 family introducedModel release
Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.
June 20261
Jun 2026Kimi K2.8 Preview releasedModel release
Moonshot previewed an intermediate K2-generation model before Kimi K3.
April 20265
Apr 20, 2026Kimi presentation creation releasedFeature update
Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.
Apr 20, 2026Kimi Work added to productivity suiteFeature update
Kimi expanded its workspace features for producing and editing work artifacts.
Apr 20, 2026Kimi Researcher documented in agent suiteFeature update
Moonshot documented Kimi Researcher as a deep-research workflow within its agent suite.
Apr 20, 2026Agent Swarm upgradedFeature update
Kimi expanded its multi-agent swarm system to coordinate parallel specialist agents.
Apr 20, 2026Kimi K2.6 released and open-sourcedOpen weights
Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 with improved agent capabilities and published model weights.
March 20264
Mar 2026Checkpoint Engine releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published its distributed model-checkpointing engine.
Mar 2026FlashKDA releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published optimized kernels for Kimi Delta Attention.
Mar 2026MoonEP releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released its expert-parallel communication library for large MoE training and inference.
Mar 2026MoBA research implementation releasedResearch paper
Moonshot published Mixture-of-Block Attention code and research for efficient long-context modeling.
February 20261
Feb 2026Kimi Claw enters public betaProduct launch
Moonshot opened public beta access to Kimi Claw, a persistent cloud agent workspace.
January 20261
Jan 27, 2026Kimi K2.5 releasedModel release
Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.
December 20251
Dec 31, 2025Moonshot raises $500M at $4.3B valuationFunding round
Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.
November 20252
Nov 6, 2025Kimi K2 Thinking releasedModel release
Moonshot released the reasoning-focused K2 Thinking model for long-horizon agentic tasks.
Nov 2025Kimi Code releasedProduct launch
Moonshot released its open-source Kimi coding agent and command-line interface.
October 20252
Oct 2025Kimi Linear 48B weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published a 48B Kimi Linear checkpoint.
Oct 2025Kimi Linear architecture introducedResearch paper
Moonshot introduced Kimi Linear and Kimi Delta Attention as a hybrid linear-attention approach.
September 20253
Sep 26, 2025OK Computer agent mode launchesProduct launch
Kimi added the OK Computer agent mode for executing computer-oriented tasks.
Sep 5, 2025Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 releasedModel update
Moonshot released a K2 checkpoint with improved coding, instruction following and long-context performance.
Sep 5, 2025Kimi Agent mode launchesProduct launch
Moonshot launched Kimi Agent alongside the updated K2 model experience.
July 20253
Jul 11, 2025Kimi K2 Instruct weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the post-trained Kimi K2 Instruct checkpoint for agentic and coding tasks.
Jul 11, 2025Kimi K2 Base weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the base pretrained Kimi K2 checkpoint.
Jul 11, 2025Kimi K2 family introducedModel release
Moonshot introduced Kimi K2, a one-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 32B active parameters.
June 20252
Jun 16, 2025Kimi-Dev-72B releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.
Jun 2025Kimina-Prover 7B releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published a seven-billion-parameter formal theorem-proving model.
May 20252
May 2025Kimi-Audio 7B weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the seven-billion-parameter Kimi-Audio checkpoint.
May 2025Kimi-Audio project releasedModel release
Moonshot introduced an open audio-language model family covering audio understanding and generation.
April 20253
Apr 2025Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking open weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the reasoning-oriented Kimi-VL A3B Thinking checkpoint.
Apr 2025Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct open weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the instruction-tuned Kimi-VL A3B checkpoint.
Apr 2025Kimi-VL model family releasedModel release
Moonshot introduced Kimi-VL, an open-weight mixture-of-experts vision-language family.
March 20252
Mar 2025Kimina-Prover Preview releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released a preview checkpoint for formal mathematical theorem proving.
Mar 2025Kimina-Prover project introducedResearch paper
Moonshot introduced the Kimina-Prover line of open models for formal theorem proving.
February 20251
Feb 2025Moonlight 16B research weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.
January 20253
Jan 20, 2025Kimi k1.5 releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released Kimi k1.5, a multimodal reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning.
Jan 20, 2025Kimi reasoning model family introducedModel release
Moonshot introduced its open k-series reasoning work through the Kimi k1.5 release.
Jan 2025Kimi k1 reasoning model disclosedResearch paper
Moonshot described k1 as a long-context reinforcement-learning reasoning system.
November 20241
Nov 2024Kimi k0-math research model disclosedResearch paper
Moonshot disclosed k0-math as an experimental reinforcement-learning model for mathematical reasoning.
August 20241
Aug 5, 2024Moonshot reaches $3.3B valuationFunding round
Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.
March 20243
Mar 18, 2024Kimi tests two-million-character contextFeature update
Kimi opened a beta supporting up to two million Chinese characters of context.
Mar 2024Mooncake serving architecture releasedResearch paper
Moonshot released Mooncake, a KV-cache-centric architecture for disaggregated large-model serving.
Mar 2024Moonshot publishes open research infrastructureResearch paper
Moonshot began publishing open systems research for efficient long-context model training and serving.
February 20241
Feb 19, 2024Alibaba-led financing values Moonshot at $2.5BFunding round
Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.
January 20241
2024Kimi mobile app releasedProduct launch
Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.
November 20234
Nov 2023moonshot-v1-128k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 128K-context text model through its API.
Nov 2023moonshot-v1-32k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 32K-context text model through its API.
Nov 2023Moonshot API opens to developersAPI release
Moonshot introduced developer API access to its language models.
Nov 2023moonshot-v1-8k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed an 8K-context text model through its API.
October 20232
Oct 9, 2023Kimi Chat releasedProduct launch
The web-based Kimi conversational assistant became publicly available with long-context document capabilities.
Oct 9, 2023Kimi platform launchesProduct launch
Moonshot launched Kimi as a long-context AI assistant for the Chinese market.
March 20231
Mar 2023Moonshot AI foundedNews
Moonshot AI was founded in Beijing by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin to develop frontier foundation models.
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