# Kimi

> Kimi is Moonshot AI’s assistant and model ecosystem for research, coding and document work. The Beijing company combines a consumer app, paid memberships, developer APIs and open model weights, extending its long-context roots into tools that can execute multi-step tasks.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Beijing, China
- **Founders:** Yang Zhilin (Co-founder and CEO), Zhou Xinyu (Co-founder), Wu Yuxin (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Kimi assistant, Kimi Open Platform, Kimi K2, Kimi K2.5, Kimi Code
- **Notable:** Launched Kimi in October 2023 with long-document processing as a distinguishing capability., Published Kimi K2 model weights in July 2025 and a technical report describing training and tool-use methods., Released multimodal K2.5 in January 2026 and K2.6 in April 2026.

## Products & services

- **Kimi assistant** — Web and mobile assistant with search, reasoning, file understanding and agent workflows.
- **Kimi Open Platform** — Usage-billed model APIs and enterprise integration services.
- **Kimi K2** — Open-weight mixture-of-experts model with one trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters.
- **Kimi K2.5** — Multimodal model combining text, vision and parallel agent orchestration.
- **Kimi Code** — Coding assistant with a terminal CLI and editor integrations; open-source tooling.
- **Kimi K2.6** — Model release emphasizing extended coding sessions, tool use and larger agent swarms.
- **Kimi K3** — Flagship model announced July 16, 2026, with native vision and a one-million-token context window.
- **Kimi Work** — Desktop agent for local knowledge work, files, skills and scheduled tasks.
- **Kimi Vendor Verifier** — Open tooling to check the accuracy of third-party inference implementations.
- **Agent Swarm** — Orchestrated parallel agents for broad research and batch work.

## Achievements

- Launched Kimi in October 2023 with long-document processing as a distinguishing capability.
- Published Kimi K2 model weights in July 2025 and a technical report describing training and tool-use methods.
- Released multimodal K2.5 in January 2026 and K2.6 in April 2026.
- Announced Kimi K3 in July 2026 with a one-million-token context window.
- Expanded K3 distribution to Amazon Bedrock in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — K2.6 and Vendor Verifier put attention on long-running code tasks and inference accuracy.
- **2026-07** — K3 announced July 16; launch notice scheduled full weights for July 27.
- **2026-09** — AWS documents Kimi K3 availability on Bedrock from September 18.
- **2026-09** — Official LinkedIn posts promote the Kimi Browser Extension and interdisciplinary global recruitment.

## Links

- Website: https://www.kimi.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kimi-ai-linkedin
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot
- GitHub: https://github.com/MoonshotAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KimiMoonshot
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimiai.official/

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Last updated: 2026-10-02