Kimi

According to 30 July, Kimi had completed the F round of financing, amounting to over $3.5 billion, and the valuation had risen to $35 billion, according to the daily newspaper Kotgen. It was reported that the actual amount of financing for the current round was three times greater than the original target and was therefore closed earlier. The G round of finance, originally scheduled to start in August, had also begun ahead of schedule, and had been positioned as the Pre-IPO round, raising the pre-entry valuation to $50 billion. Bloomberg reported on July 21st that the dark side of the moon planned the last round of financing before it was launched in August

On July 23, according to Bloomberg today (23), Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, admitted that Kimi K3, launched on the dark side of the moon, was quite competitive, but it was not certain whether the dark side of the month had used the technical results of OpenAi to upgrade model capabilities. Kimi K3, released a few days ago in the interview with Brokman, says, "The model is quite good, no doubt." However, it is now determined whether the dark side of the moon is by distillation..

On 22 July, in an interview with the economic coverage of the twenty-first century, Huang Shui, the head of the dark side of the month, said that the value of the front model should not be measured only at low prices. This response was directed at the industrial controversy surrounding pricing, arithmetical tension and open source routes following the publication of Kimi K3. He indicated that Kimi would continue to be open-source, but open-source and closed-source services would be demand-driven: clients requiring privatization deployment and fine-tuning would choose open-source models, and clients wishing to purchase hosting services directly might choose closed-source services, which did not in themselves determine the quality and price of Token. It's called..

On 22 July, according to The Information, Microsoft is testing the dark side of the moon, Kimi K3, to assess whether it can be used in Copilot and plans to access the model to Azure. At present, Kimi K3 is still in the internal testing and platform access phase and has not yet formally become an optional model for Copilot. According to sources, Microsoft Copilot engineers are testing Kimi K3 to be able to carry previous OpenAI and Anthropic models..

On July 20, the news that yesterday, Dean Ball, the head of OpenAI strategy, wrote that Kimi K3 was a "very good model" and that its performance could not simply be attributed to distillation. In the smart-body programming scenario, Kimi K3 has almost reached the level of the best open model in the first quarter of 2026; however, according to his experience of use, the model consumes more token and therefore the actual running costs are not necessarily low. Ball also stated that he was surprised that China was still allowed to open such high-capacity models. He thinks it's relevant..

On July 19, the dark side of the moon, Kimi K3, the big model came online on Thursday, with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1 million Tokens in context. Kimi K3 surpassed Claude Fable 5 in 1679 on the Frontend Code Arena Global AI Large Model List, first. According to Bloomberg today, this new model on the dark side of the moon is provoking the global technology market. Before, the industry, which included the top of China's AI, and the head of the United States, considered..

On July 18th, Kimi has no plans to develop video-generation models. At this stage, the team concentrates its resources on upgrading the smart ceiling of the model rather than following the competitive pace of video-generated products. Zhou Jin-woo believes that video production, while of clear use, is not very helpful in terms of theoretical and practical effects to enhance model intelligence. He separates capacity enhancement from functional expansion: video generation can add an output form, but it is not the main path in the team's current judgement that drives reasoning and mission capacity to continue to rise..

On July 17, Kimi K3 was officially released, using 2.8 trillion parametric scales, from birth to support visual understanding and providing 1 million token context windows. Officially, it is called the world ' s first 3 trillion-billion-scale open source model, which focuses on long-range programming, knowledge work and reasoning. Kimi K3 uses MoE structures to activate 16 of the 896 experts. Officially, Stable Laten Moe, Quantile Balancing, Per-Hea..

News from June 4, yesterday, the dark side of the moon Kimi announced that the local AI smart body Kimi Work for intellectuals officially opened the Beta version of the test in support of Apple Silicon Mac and above. It is described that KimiWork migrates the AI smart body capabilities that Kimi Code has validated in the project landscape to a desktop GUI for ordinary knowledge workers, without users having to open terminals or configure environments by..

On May 26th, the dark side of the moon, the official Kimi announced last night that Kimi K2 model API was offline. The kimi-k2 series model will be offline on 25 May 2026 and will no longer be maintained and supported. Please use the Kimi 's latest model kimi-k2.6 directly to obtain continued support and more robust multimodular understanding, reflection, code and Agent capabilities. Kimi-k2 series models include: kimi-k2-0711-preview kimi-k2-..

On May 16, Kimi officially launched the browser plugin Kimi WebBridge yesterday, allowing AI, as a user, to perform click, slide, input, fill in forms, extract information, integrate content across sites, etc. in the browser to support local AI applications such as Kimi Code, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent. Installation in two steps: Search for Kimi WebBridge extension in the Chrome or Edge application store; will be officially provided..

On 8 May, according to the capital of Mount Hua, Kimi completed a new round of about $2 billion in financing yesterday, with a post-investment valuation of over $20 billion. The current round of financing was led by the United States of America Dragonball, which invested more than $200 million, with the participation and investment of institutions such as Waterwood Capital, China Mobility and CPE. Fong Capital acted as financial adviser to some of the buyers of the transaction. As for the IPO, which is frequently transmitted to the outside world, it is expected that in an internal letter at the end of last year, Yang Shih-hyun stated that the company is in no hurry to be listed in the short term

News of March 26, yesterday, on the dark side of the month, CEO Yang Shizuku gave a speech at the plenary session of the China-Kan Village Forum on the theme " Open source AI: Accelerating the exploration of smart caps " , which provided a systematic update on Kimi ' s progress in scaling up efficiency and bottom-up architecture innovation. Yang Shizuku summed up the essence of the big model as "to turn more energy into intelligence", emphasizing that scaleing is the core foundation of AI development over the past few years. He pointed out that Kimi is increasing scale efficiency around three dimensions: TOKEN Efficiency: through a better network structure and optimizer..

On March 19, yesterday, on the dark side of the moon, the founder of Kimi, Yang Shizuku, gave a keynote address at the GTC 2026 Congress in Wewda, How We Scaled Kimi K2.5, which systematically revealed for the first time the complete technical road map of Kimi, re-engineered around three sub-structures: Muoncrip Optimator: For Adam Optimizer, which follows from 2014, the team introduced the Newton-Schulz iterative and QK-Clip mechanism, which was based on the Muon Optimizer, to solve..

Kimi OpenClaw opens the Kimi website: https://www.kimi.com/ Click Kimi Claw, short kimi version of lobster. When you click on your big thumb to create, you wait for a minute to deploy. Then you can call the lobster directly in the browser. On the right hand, it is possible to rename and restart its own lobster, which is equivalent to creating a sandbox environment for everyone at the cloud end and then installing an OpenClaw in this independent environment. But this one key deployment is just..

On February 17, Bloomberg reported today that the dark side of the Kimi series of AI model developers (Moonshot AI) had launched a new round of financing plans at the end of January of this year, seeking to raise additional funds from a $10 billion valuation (note: the current exchange rate is about $6,915.2 billion). And just a month ago, the dark side of the month was successfully financed with $4.3 billion in valuation, $500 million. According to anonymous sources, the new round of financing negotiations on the dark side of the month is under way, and it is uncertain whether the target will be reached, but Aliba..

On February 2nd, yesterday evening, “36 Krypton” released news that Kimi, in his recent communications with investors, had stated that the company's overseas revenues had exceeded domestic revenues, and that since the release of the new model K2.5, there had been a fourfold increase in the number of paid users worldwide. This change happens within a few days of the release of the new generation of model K2.5. On Openrouter, K2.5 has reached third place after Claude Sonet 4.5 and Gemini 3 Flash. In January 29..

According to news from January 23rd, the Dark Side of the Moon, President Zhang Jae-hyun, revealed Kimi's next move when he attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in 2026, saying, "We will soon release a new model." According to Zhang, Kimi, using the resources of the top American laboratory 1% alone, developed a global leading open-source model, Kimi K2, Kimi K2 Thinking, that even partially outperformed America’s top closed-source model. "From the very first day of our business, we realized that China's first generation..

On 1 January, according to LateLatePost, an AI tool Kimi developer recently completed a $500 million C round of financing, with IDG leading $150 million, and older shareholders such as Ali, Tate, Wang Wei Wen oversubscribed, with a post-investment valuation of $4.3 billion. Later, according to LatePost, AI Tool Kimi developer's dark side of the month recently completed $500 million C-wheel financing, with IDG leading $150 million, over-subscribed, post-validation of older shareholders like Ali, Tent, Wang Wei Wen..

On November 9, Moonshot AI launched its most powerful open-source thinking model so far on Thursday. According to the dark side of the month, Kimi K2 Thinking achieved an excellent performance of 44.9% in the final human examination (HLE), which went beyond advanced models such as GPT-5, Grok-4, Claude 4.5. However, CNBC quotes informed sources that Kimi K2 Tinki..

On November 7th, the dark side of the moon launched Kimi's most powerful open-source thinking model - Kimi K2 Thinking. The model was described as a new generation of Tinking Agent, trained in the concept of the "model is Agent" on the dark side of the moon, where originals mastered the ability to "think and use tools". In the final human examination (Humanity & #039; s Last Exam), autonomous web browse Comp, complex information gathering reasoning (SEAL-0)

On September 26, Kimi, the dark side of the moon, released a new Agent mode OK Computer, starting the greyscale test. OK Computer continues the concept of "model is Agent" and further enhances the ability of smarts and tools to access through end-to-end training of Kimi K2. After the user's demand, Kimi can operate his own virtual computer and perform complex tasks such as multifunctional website development, big data analysis, photo video generation and high quality PPT production. According to 1Ai, there was a reward..

On August 23rd, Dark Side of the Moon announced that through the tireless efforts of its engineers, the output speed of the kimi-k2-turbo-preview model has been increased to 60 Tokens per second, with a maximum of 100 Tokens per second. Currently, the model is still enjoying a 50% discounted price, with the model costing ¥2.00 per million tokens for the input price (cache hits), ¥8.00 for the input price (cache misses) and ¥32.00 for the output price. Input price (cache hit) ¥2.00, input price (cache miss) ¥8.00, output price ¥32.00. The original price will be restored on September 1st. As 1AI previously reported, Dark Side of the Moon 8 ...

August 1, news, the dark side of the moon today released Kimi K2 high-speed version -- Kimi-K2-turbo-preview, the model parameters and Kimi-K2 consistent, but the output speed from 10 Tokens per second to 40 Tokens per second. According to the introduction of the model is currently a limited time 50% off! According to the report, the model is currently on special offer for a limited time at 50% off, and the original price will be restored on September 1. The discounted price: the model is priced at $2 per million tokens for input (cache hits), $8 for input (cache misses), and $32 for output. According to 1...