Kimi (Moonshot AI) — the open model line at a glance
Kimi by Moonshot AI as an open line: positioning, use profile and how to choose. Flagship Kimi K3 with a very large context window.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi model family (China) — open frontier models with a very large context window, built for agentic tasks and long documents.
Kimi K3 (July 2026) is Moonshot AIs open-weight flagship — an MoE model with 2.8T parameters (104B active), native vision and a 1M-token context.
Kimi K2 is Moonshot AI's open-weight MoE model series with 1T total parameters and 32B active parameters, trained on 15.5T tokens — focused on agentic and coding tasks.
Kimi K2.5 is an open model from Moonshot AI released in January 2026. It is a native multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with around 1 trillion parameters (32 billion active), a 256,000-token context and agentic capabilities.
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's open-weight agent model from April 2026 — 1T parameters (32B active), 262k context, natively multimodal, with agent swarms of up to 300 sub-agents.
Kimi K2 Thinking (November 2025) is Moonshot AI's open reasoning-agent model — a trillion-parameter MoE with a 256K context that runs long thinking and tool-use chains on its own.
Kimi by Moonshot AI as an open line: positioning, use profile and how to choose. Flagship Kimi K3 with a very large context window.
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 — an open-weight model with 2.8T parameters per the vendor. Open weights from July 27. What it means for the market.