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Moonshot AI

Creator of Kimi. Best Chinese long-document understanding. K3 at $3/$15 per 1M offers GPT-5.6-class quality for Chinese tasks.

Creator of Kimi. Best Chinese long-document understanding. K3 at $3/$15 per 1M offers GPT-5.6-class quality for Chinese tasks.

Founded 2023
Beijing, China
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Models from Moonshot AI(1)

Moonshot AI History Timeline(11)

2026-10-22
model_release

Kimi K3.1 spotted in Arena anonymous testing, unconfirmed by vendor

The anonymous model Kibitz was inferred to correspond to Kimi K3.1 from tokenizer fingerprints and special token behaviour; Moonshot AI has not confirmed.

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2026-10-16
regulation

China weighs 23 AI tech export controls

Oct 16 China Ministry of Commerce weighs adding 23 AI technologies to export-control list including chip designs, agents, model weights, source code, amid Kimi K3 catch-up

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2026-10-12
legal

Moonshot Kimi enters settlement talks with former shareholders

Moonshot Kimi entered settlement talks with Recurrent.ai and investors on October 12 over an equity dispute worth more than $700M; Kimi has confidentially submitted a Hong Kong IPO application.

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2026-09-24
corporate

Registered capital jumps 417%

9/24 industrial filings show registered capital rising from 2.24 million yuan to 11.58 million yuan, read as a signal of accelerating Hong Kong listing preparation

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2026-09-24
launch

Kimi K3.1 expected to launch in October

9/24 internal configs show K3.1 with Low/High/Max reasoning tiers, Swarm multi-agent coordination, 1M-token Extra Long context

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2026-09-10
market

Launched Kimi Enterprise Partner Moonshot Program

Building FDE teams with IT service providers and system integrators. First batch: Chinasoft International, Kingsoft Cloud, Huasun Tiancheng, Yakang, and AsiaInfo, covering software information services, telecommunications, and cloud computing. Technical foundation is Kimi K3.

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2026-09-05
research

K3 runs on 16x DGX Spark cluster

Sept 5 NVIDIA forum test, 38 tokens/s at 16K depth

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2026-09-04
funding

Confidentially files for HK IPO, targets $3B raise

Sept 4 confidential A1 filing, $50B valuation, cloud revenue-sharing talks with Microsoft/Amazon/Google

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2026-07-28
integration

Kimi K3 launches on Cursor

Cursor integrates Kimi K3 as Composer model option

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2026-07-27
launch

Kimi K3 full weights open-sourced

July 27, 2.8T parameter MoE, 1M context

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2026-07-16
pricing

Kimi K3 API launch

API pricing ¥6.5/¥27 per 1M tokens (same as K2.6)

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