Releases
56 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
September 20251
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.

