Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI is the Beijing company behind Kimi. It began in spring 2023, and its published business license records incorporation on 17 April 2023. Founder and CEO Yang Zhilin leads the company.
Models & tools
- Kimi K3.1 Pro
Moonshot AI · Kimi K3.1
A K3-derived multimodal model with sparse attention, 2.8T total parameters and 104B active parameters.
Launch date not confirmedAPI · Downloadable - Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · Kimi K3
A long-context Kimi model with always-on reasoning and a million-token API context.
Launch date not confirmedAPI · Downloadable - Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2.6
A text, image and video model with selectable thinking and non-thinking modes.
Launch date not confirmedDeprecated API; check access detailsAPI · Downloadable - Kimi K2.7 Code
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2.7
A coding-focused multimodal model with required thinking mode and downloadable weights.
Launch date not confirmedDeprecated API; check access detailsAPI · Downloadable - Kimi-K2.5
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2
Multimodal K2 successor that combines image and video understanding with coding and reasoning.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2
Revised non-thinking K2 model with a doubled context window and a stronger focus on agentic coding.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-K2-Thinking
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2
Long-reasoning K2 model trained to alternate internal reasoning with repeated tool interactions.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base
Moonshot AI · Kimi Linear
Pretrained hybrid-attention model that combines recurrent memory with selected global-attention layers.
Launch date October 2025Downloadable - Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct
Moonshot AI · Kimi Linear
Instruction-tuned hybrid-attention model designed to reduce memory use in long conversations.
Launch date October 2025Downloadable - Kimi-K2-Instruct
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2
Original instruction-tuned K2 checkpoint for tool use and coding without extended thinking mode.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-K2-Base
Moonshot AI · Kimi K2
Trillion-parameter pretrained model that introduced MuonClip training to the Kimi K2 family.
Launch date July 2025Downloadable - Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506
Moonshot AI · Kimi VL
Revised visual-reasoning model with higher-resolution image input and improved video understanding.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-Dev-72B
Moonshot AI · Kimi Dev
Qwen2.5-72B adaptation trained to locate software faults and produce repository-level fixes.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-Audio-7B
Moonshot AI · Kimi Audio
Pretrained audio-language model for adaptation to speech, sound and audio conversation tasks.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct
Moonshot AI · Kimi Audio
Instruction-tuned audio model that can answer in text or produce speech with its text response.
Launch date Downloadable - Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
Moonshot AI · Kimi VL
Vision-language model for images, documents and video, built from Moonlight and the MoonViT encoder.
Launch date April 2025Downloadable - Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking
Moonshot AI · Kimi VL
Original long-reasoning vision-language checkpoint, retained alongside the later June 2025 revision.
Launch date April 2025Downloadable - Moonlight-16B-A3B
Moonshot AI · Moonlight
Pretrained language model used to study Muon optimization at 16 billion total parameters.
Launch date February 2025Downloadable - Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct
Moonshot AI · Moonlight
Instruction-tuned Moonlight release for conversation and task prompts, with an 8,192-token context.
Launch date February 2025Downloadable - Kimi k1.5
Moonshot AI · Kimi k1
Multimodal reasoning research model used to study reinforcement learning and long-to-short reasoning transfer.
Launch date January 2025Access not confirmed - Moonshot v1
Moonshot AI · Moonshot v1
Earlier API model family for long text and structured responses, with later vision-preview variants.
Launch date Deprecated API; check access detailsAPI - MoonViT-SO-400M
Moonshot AI · MoonViT
Standalone vision encoder adapted from SigLIP-SO-400M for native-resolution image features.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable