LLM Releases

Lab release history

Last updated Jun 18, 2026

Moonshot AI model releases

Creator of the long-context Kimi models. This page collects the lab's model releases, lifecycle events, source links, and model metadata in one crawlable record.

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15 models

Kimi K2.7 Code

Available
Moonshot AIFrontierOpen weights

Moonshot's open coding-focused agentic model built on K2.6, with native vision/video input, forced thinking mode, and stronger long-horizon software-engineering performance.

MoE1T262K ctxJun 18, 2026

Kimi K2.6

Available
Moonshot AIFrontierOpen weights

Moonshot's open native multimodal agentic model for long-horizon coding, visual interface generation, and autonomous tool orchestration.

MoE1T256K ctxMar 30, 2026

Kimi K2.5

Available
Moonshot AIFrontierOpen weights

Open multimodal Kimi model that adds native visual agentic intelligence, instant and thinking modes, and agent-swarm workflows on top of the K2 base.

MoE1T256K ctxJan 27, 2026

Kimi K2 Thinking

Available
Moonshot AIFrontierOpen weights

Open K2 reasoning-agent variant that interleaves step-by-step thinking with tool calls and supports stable 200-300 step tool-use trajectories.

MoE1T256K ctxNov 6, 2025

Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

Available
Moonshot AIOpen source

MIT-licensed hybrid linear-attention model using Kimi Delta Attention, built for million-token contexts with much lower KV-cache usage.

Hybrid48B1.0M ctxOct 31, 2025

Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Available
Moonshot AIFrontierOpen weights

September 2025 K2 update with stronger agentic coding, better frontend generation, and a doubled 256K context window.

MoE1T256K ctxSep 5, 2025

Kimi K2 Instruct

Available
Moonshot AIFrontierOpen weights

Original open K2 post-trained model: a 1T-parameter MoE optimized for coding, reasoning, and tool-using agentic workflows.

MoE1T128K ctxJul 11, 2025

Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506

Available
Moonshot AIOpen source

Updated MIT-licensed Kimi-VL reasoning model with better multimodal reasoning, video understanding, high-resolution perception, and lower thinking-token use.

MoE16B128K ctxJun 21, 2025

Kimi-Dev-72B

Available
Moonshot AIOpen source

MIT-licensed coding LLM trained with repository-level reinforcement learning for software issue resolution.

Dense73B ctxJun 17, 2025

Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct

Available
Moonshot AIOpen source

Open audio foundation model for audio understanding, generation, speech recognition, audio QA, captioning, and speech conversation.

Hybrid10B ctxApr 25, 2025

Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct

Available
Moonshot AIOpen source

Efficient MIT-licensed vision-language MoE for OCR, image/video understanding, long documents, and OS-style agent tasks.

MoE16B128K ctxApr 17, 2025

Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct

Available
Moonshot AIOpen source

MIT-licensed 16B/3B-active MoE trained with Moonshot's scalable Muon optimizer experiments.

MoE16B8K ctxFeb 24, 2025

Kimi k1.5

Available
Moonshot AIProprietary

Moonshot's multimodal reinforcement-learning reasoning model, reported as matching OpenAI o1 on math, coding, and multimodal reasoning.

Undisc. ctxJan 20, 2025

Kimi 1M

Available
Moonshot AIProprietary

Long-context Kimi upgrade advertised with support for million-character document and conversation contexts.

Undisc. ctxMar 18, 2024

Kimi Chat

Available
Moonshot AIProprietary

Moonshot's first Kimi assistant release, establishing the long-context product line before the open Kimi model cards.

Undisc. ctxOct 9, 2023