Releases
56 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
September 20261
Sep 3, 2026
Moonshot 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, 2026
Moonshot closes $3.5B financing at $35B valuationFunding round
Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.
Jul 27, 2026
Kimi K3 full weights publishedOpen weights
Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.
Jul 20, 2026
Moonshot pauses Kimi subscriptions amid K3 demandNews
Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.
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 20265
Apr 20, 2026
Kimi presentation creation releasedFeature update
Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.
Apr 20, 2026
Kimi Work added to productivity suiteFeature update
Kimi expanded its workspace features for producing and editing work artifacts.
Apr 20, 2026
Kimi Researcher documented in agent suiteFeature update
Moonshot documented Kimi Researcher as a deep-research workflow within its agent suite.
Apr 20, 2026
Agent Swarm upgradedFeature update
Kimi expanded its multi-agent swarm system to coordinate parallel specialist agents.
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 20264
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.
Mar 2026
MoBA research implementation releasedResearch paper
Moonshot published Mixture-of-Block Attention code and research for efficient long-context modeling.
February 20261
Feb 2026
Kimi Claw enters public betaProduct launch
Moonshot opened public beta access to Kimi Claw, a persistent cloud agent workspace.
January 20261
Jan 27, 2026
Kimi K2.5 releasedModel release
Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.
December 20251
Dec 31, 2025
Moonshot raises $500M at $4.3B valuationFunding round
Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.
November 20252
Nov 6, 2025
Kimi K2 Thinking releasedModel release
Moonshot released the reasoning-focused K2 Thinking model for long-horizon agentic tasks.
Nov 2025
Kimi Code releasedProduct launch
Moonshot released its open-source Kimi coding agent and command-line interface.
October 20252
Oct 2025
Kimi Linear 48B weights releasedOpen weights
Moonshot published a 48B Kimi Linear checkpoint.
Oct 2025
Kimi Linear architecture introducedResearch paper
Moonshot introduced Kimi Linear and Kimi Delta Attention as a hybrid linear-attention approach.
September 20253
Sep 26, 2025
OK Computer agent mode launchesProduct launch
Kimi added the OK Computer agent mode for executing computer-oriented tasks.
Sep 5, 2025
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 releasedModel update
Moonshot released a K2 checkpoint with improved coding, instruction following and long-context performance.
Sep 5, 2025
Kimi Agent mode launchesProduct launch
Moonshot launched Kimi Agent alongside the updated K2 model experience.
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 20252
Mar 2025
Kimina-Prover Preview releasedOpen weights
Moonshot released a preview checkpoint for formal mathematical theorem proving.
Mar 2025
Kimina-Prover project introducedResearch paper
Moonshot introduced the Kimina-Prover line of open models for formal 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 20253
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.
Jan 2025
Kimi k1 reasoning model disclosedResearch paper
Moonshot described k1 as a long-context reinforcement-learning reasoning system.
November 20241
Nov 2024
Kimi k0-math research model disclosedResearch paper
Moonshot disclosed k0-math as an experimental reinforcement-learning model for mathematical reasoning.
August 20241
Aug 5, 2024
Moonshot reaches $3.3B valuationFunding round
Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.
March 20243
Mar 18, 2024
Kimi tests two-million-character contextFeature update
Kimi opened a beta supporting up to two million Chinese characters of context.
Mar 2024
Mooncake serving architecture releasedResearch paper
Moonshot released Mooncake, a KV-cache-centric architecture for disaggregated large-model serving.
Mar 2024
Moonshot publishes open research infrastructureResearch paper
Moonshot began publishing open systems research for efficient long-context model training and serving.
February 20241
Feb 19, 2024
Alibaba-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
2024
Kimi mobile app releasedProduct launch
Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.
November 20231
Nov 2023
moonshot-v1-128k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 128K-context text model through its API.

