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Moonshot AI
Latest
2026-07-16: Kimi K3 launched on Kimi Code and Kimi app; K3 Max and K3 Swarm Max variants; open-weight release by July 27
Overview
Beijing-based AI startup, creators of the Kimi assistant and model family. Known for pushing long-context capabilities and massive open-weight scale. Released the world's first open 3T-class AI system (Kimi K3, July 2026). Competes in the Chinese open-weight tier alongside Z.ai, MiniMax, and Alibaba / Qwen AI Lab.
Key People
- Founder: Yang Zhilin (CEO)
Models & Products
- Kimi K3 — July 2026, 2.8T MoE, 1M context, world's largest open-weight model at launch; weights planned by July 27
Recent Activity
- 2026-07-16: Kimi K3 launched on Kimi Code and Kimi app; K3 Max and K3 Swarm Max variants; open-weight release by July 27 (source)
Strategic Position
Moonshot is the scale outlier in Chinese open-weight: Kimi K3 at 2.8T is the largest model released open-weight by any Chinese lab, and beats Anthropic Fable 5 on at least one benchmark (Frontend Code Arena). The long-context expertise (Kimi's original differentiator) is baked into K3's 1M-token window. Competing against Alibaba Qwen 3.8 (2.4T, announced July 19) and GLM-5.2 (Z.ai).