Kimi
Kimi is a family of artificial intelligence models and a chatbot made by Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based AI company founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin, a former Meta AI and Google Brain researcher. Moonshot is backed by Alibaba among others.[1]
Kimi K2
In July 2025, Moonshot released Kimi K2, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with "1 trillion total parameters" and "32 billion activated parameters", under a modified MIT License that requires very large commercial users to credit "Kimi K2" in their products.[2] Kimi K2 Thinking, a reasoning version that can make "200–300 consecutive tool invocations", followed in November 2025; a reported training cost of $4.6 million was not confirmed by the company.[3] In January 2026, Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, which "understands text, image, and video", along with a coding agent, Kimi Code.[4]
Funding
In May 2026, Moonshot raised about $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, as demand for open-source AI models grew.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Park, Kate (May 7, 2026). "China's Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ "Kimi-K2-Instruct". Hugging Face. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ Cheng, Evelyn (November 6, 2025). "Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new AI model Kimi K2 Thinking". CNBC. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ Mehta, Ivan (January 27, 2026). "China's Moonshot releases a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, and a coding agent". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 13, 2026.