Releases
29 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
July 20263
Jul 27, 2026
Kimi K3 full weights publishedOpen weights
Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.
Jul 16, 2026
Kimi K3 releasedModel release
Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.
Jul 16, 2026
Kimi K3 family introducedModel release
Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.
June 20261
Jun 2026
Kimi K2.8 Preview releasedModel release
Moonshot previewed an intermediate K2-generation model before Kimi K3.
April 20261
Apr 20, 2026
Kimi K2.6 released and open-sourcedOpen weights
Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 with improved agent capabilities and published model weights.
March 20263
Mar 2026
Checkpoint Engine releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published its distributed model-checkpointing engine.
Mar 2026
FlashKDA releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published optimized kernels for Kimi Delta Attention.
Mar 2026
MoonEP releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released its expert-parallel communication library for large MoE training and inference.
January 20261
Jan 27, 2026
Kimi K2.5 releasedModel release
Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.
November 20251
Nov 6, 2025
Kimi K2 Thinking releasedModel release
Moonshot released the reasoning-focused K2 Thinking model for long-horizon agentic tasks.
October 20251
Oct 2025
Kimi Linear 48B weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published a 48B Kimi Linear checkpoint.
September 20251
Sep 5, 2025
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 releasedModel update
Moonshot released a K2 checkpoint with improved coding, instruction following and long-context performance.
July 20253
Jul 11, 2025
Kimi K2 Instruct weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the post-trained Kimi K2 Instruct checkpoint for agentic and coding tasks.
Jul 11, 2025
Kimi K2 Base weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the base pretrained Kimi K2 checkpoint.
Jul 11, 2025
Kimi K2 family introducedModel release
Moonshot introduced Kimi K2, a one-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 32B active parameters.
June 20252
Jun 16, 2025
Kimi-Dev-72B releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.
Jun 2025
Kimina-Prover 7B releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published a seven-billion-parameter formal theorem-proving model.
May 20252
May 2025
Kimi-Audio 7B weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the seven-billion-parameter Kimi-Audio checkpoint.
May 2025
Kimi-Audio project releasedModel release
Moonshot introduced an open audio-language model family covering audio understanding and generation.
April 20253
Apr 2025
Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking open weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the reasoning-oriented Kimi-VL A3B Thinking checkpoint.
Apr 2025
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct open weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published the instruction-tuned Kimi-VL A3B checkpoint.
Apr 2025
Kimi-VL model family releasedModel release
Moonshot introduced Kimi-VL, an open-weight mixture-of-experts vision-language family.
March 20251
Mar 2025
Kimina-Prover Preview releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released a preview checkpoint for formal mathematical theorem proving.
February 20251
Feb 2025
Moonlight 16B research weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.
January 20252
Jan 20, 2025
Kimi k1.5 releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released Kimi k1.5, a multimodal reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning.
Jan 20, 2025
Kimi reasoning model family introducedModel release
Moonshot introduced its open k-series reasoning work through the Kimi k1.5 release.
November 20233
Nov 2023
moonshot-v1-128k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 128K-context text model through its API.
Nov 2023
moonshot-v1-32k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 32K-context text model through its API.
Nov 2023
moonshot-v1-8k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed an 8K-context text model through its API.

