Dark Side of the Moon

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 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

In April 21st, yesterday, the dark side of the moon officially released and opened a new model, Kimi K2.6, which focused on upgrading the code, AI intelligence and office capacity. (a) Stronger code capability: the internal benchmark test score is about 201 TP3T, which can be coded continuously for 13 hours and handles over 4000 line codes to support multiple languages such as Rust, Go, Python

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 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 January 28th, the dark side of the month officially launched the latest version of the flagship model, Kimi K2.5, to the public yesterday, to achieve a full upgrade in visual, multimodular understanding, code generation and intelligence capabilities. It was described that Kimi K2.5, using original multimodular structures, supported text, image and video input and was able to perform tasks such as image analysis, video analysis and visual programming. Official displays show that models can generate 3D models based on plans, re-engineer web interfaces from video and achieve higher accuracy path planning and visual debugging in image reasoning tasks..

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 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 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...

July 13, 2011 - Aravind Srinivas, CEO of U.S. AI startup Perplexity, said in an article today that the Kimi K2 model of the dark side of the moon has performed well in tests, and that the company may follow up with a post-training program based on K2. Live Mint reported in January that DeepSeek R1 had previously been used by Perplexity for model training. Kimi K2 is Dark Side of the Moon Kimi's first 10,000...

July 12, 2012 - Dark Side of the Moon officially released the Kimi K2 model last night and open-sourced it simultaneously. Kimi K2 is a MoE architecture base model with stronger code capabilities and better at generalized Agent tasks, with 1T total parameters and 32B activation parameters. In benchmark performance tests such as SWE Bench Verified, Tau2, AceBench, etc., Kimi K2 has achieved SOTA scores among the open-source models, demonstrating its leading capabilities in code, Agent, mathematical reasoning tasks. ...

June 21, 1AI learned from Kimi's public number on the dark side of the moon that Kimi-Researcher, Kimi's first Agent (intelligent body), opened a small-scale gray-scale test on the 20th. Kimi-Researcher is a new generation of Agent model trained based on end-to-end autonomous reinforcement learning (end-to-end agentic RL) technology, and is also an Agent product designed for deep research tasks. Later, Dark Side of the Moon will gradually open source Kimi-Res...

June 3 news, information shows, recently millet technology limited liability company will be a number of "kimi" trademark transfer to the Beijing moon of the dark side of science and technology limited company, the earliest application for the above trademarks in 2013, the current state of the above trademarks are registered. The information shows that the dark side of the moon in Beijing Technology Co., Ltd. was established in April 2023, the legal representative of Yang Zhilin, registered capital of 1 million yuan, the scope of business contains software development, software sales, artificial intelligence software development, artificial intelligence application software development, computer system services, information technology consulting services, etc., by Yang Zhi...

A few days ago, Ming Chaoping, the founder of Noisee, a former Dark Side of the Moon overseas product, was interviewed by The Evening Standard and talked about the development of AI products through his team's recently announced AI coding community-based product YouWare. Ming positioned YouWare as a community for programmers, aiming to allow non-code professionals to create their own work. Ming also revealed that the team hopes to give users "motivation" and "triggers" through the community, as YouWare includes idea sharing, content reference, and mutual help among creators. At the same time...

February 24, 2011 - Kimi, Dark Side of the Moon, yesterday released a new technical paper "Muon Scalable for LLM Training" and announced the launch of "Moonlight": a 3 billion / 16 billion parameter hybrid expert model (MoE) trained on Muon. Mixed Expert Model (MoE) trained on Muon. Using 5.7 trillion tokens, it achieves better performance at lower floating point operations (FLOPs), thus improving the Pareto efficiency bound. Dark Side of the Moon says the team found that the Muon optimizer can be carefully tuned by adding weight decay,...

February 18, 2011 - Kimi, a subsidiary of Dark Side of the Moon, was one of the most talked about AI products from startups in China before the rise of DeepSeek. However, after DeepSeek's open source, low-cost, high-performance explosion, some people can't help but compare it to Kimi. According to a report by Interface News today, Dark Side of the Moon has recently decided to drastically reduce its product placement budget, including the suspension of multiple Android channel placements and cooperation with third-party advertising platforms. The report mentioned that in the face of DeepSeek's natural traffic in a few dozen days went to 35 million...

February 18th, 2011 - Dark Side of the Moon has announced the launch of a new model, kimi-latest. kimi-latest will be benchmarked against the current model used by Kimi's Intelligent Assistant, and upgraded in tandem with updates to the Intelligent Assistant product (the model name will always be kimi-latest). Kimi Latest Model Features Kimi Latest always uses the latest Kimi Big Model used by Kimi Intelligent Assistant products, and may contain features that are not yet stable Context length is 128k, and will be automatically upgraded according to the...

February 18th morning news, the dark side of the moon researcher Flood Sung recently shared the complete thinking process behind the k1.5 model, and revealed that the shock effect brought by the release of OpenAI o1 on September 12th, 2024 has plunged himself into the reflection on the effectiveness of Long-CoT. Because the effectiveness of Long-CoT, in fact, more than a year ago, the dark side of the moon Kimi co-founder Tim Zhou Xinyu verified that the use of very small models, training models to do do dozens of digits of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, will be fine-grained...

Dark Side of the Moon announced on January 20 the launch of Kimi's new SOTA model -- k1.5 multimodal thinking model, which realizes SOTA (state-of-the-art) level multimodal reasoning and generalized reasoning capabilities. Officially, in short-CoT mode, Kimi k1.5's mathematical, coding, and visual multimodal and generalized capabilities dramatically outperform those of the global short-thinking SOTA models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, leading by as much as 5...

December 16, 2011 - Dark Side of the Moon Kimi today announced the release of its visual thinking model, k1, which is built on reinforcement learning techniques, natively supports end-to-end image understanding and thought chaining technologies, and extends its capabilities to more basic science disciplines beyond math. Dark Side of the Moon officials said that the initial k1 model outperformed OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in benchmark proficiency tests in basic science disciplines such as math, physics, and chemistry. 1AI learned from Dark Side of the Moon officials that Kimi's new model release...

December 6 evening news, after GSR Ventures partner Zhu Xiaohu posted an article blasting former GSR Ventures Managing Partner Zhang Yutong and Dark Side of the Moon, Dark Side of the Moon Kimi Founder and CEO Yang Zhilin responded today, saying, "Leaving the former company to restart a new business was approved by the signature of every director and all the necessary procedures. Grateful to all Circular Intelligence investors and Dark Side of the Moon investors for supporting early stage entrepreneurial dreams, I believe there will be a reasonable resolution to the differences." In full: there's been some discussion lately around what happened between me and Circular Intelligence early stage investors, and I wanted to put some facts and thoughts from my perspective...