The latest AI news and updates of Kimi — an AI assistant and open model family spanning chat, coding, agents, and vision. Covering Kimi's latest launches, product updates, and research from the past 90 days.
KimiJul 27Moonshot AI released PerceptionBench, a benchmark that isolates visual perception into 10 atomic capabilities. The dataset contains 3,000 verified questions derived from frontier model failures across 42 existing benchmarks, designed to test visual perception without requiring reasoning or external knowledge. The benchmark and evaluation code are available on GitHub and Hugging Face for community use.
KimiJul 27Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on Day 0 with infrastructure partners Modal, Baseten, and Nebius Token Factory. Modal trained a custom DFlash speculator for the model’s architecture, delivering faster inference without quality loss. These partnerships provide immediate, reliable access to the open-weight model across these platforms.
KimiJul 27Moonshot AI has open-sourced FlashKDA, a high-performance CUTLASS-based implementation of Kimi Delta Attention kernels. It delivers a 1.72× to 2.22× prefill speedup over the flash-linear-attention Triton baseline on H20 GPUs. The kernels function as a drop-in backend for the flash-linear-attention library, accelerating attention computation for models utilizing the Kimi Delta Attention mechanism.
KimiJul 19Moonshot AI is temporarily pausing new Kimi subscriptions to manage capacity following high demand for the Kimi K3 model. Existing subscribers remain unaffected while the company adds compute. Moonshot AI will also split membership into two focused tiers: Kimi Membership for general use and Kimi Code Membership for coding workflows, aiming to stabilize performance and match compute to specific tasks.
KimiJul 19Moonshot AI launched Kimi Business Membership, an enterprise plan priced at $599 per seat annually with a five-seat minimum. The subscription includes all Allegretto plan benefits, enterprise-grade data privacy, dedicated technical support, and corporate billing. It also provides priority access to experimental features including Agent Swarm, Kimi Claw, and professional database plugins.
KimiJul 16Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model featuring a 1-million-token context window and native multimodality. The model uses Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals to improve scaling efficiency by 2.5x over its predecessor. Kimi K3 is available now via Kimi’s web platforms and API, with full model weights scheduled for release on July 27, 2026.
KimiJun 24Moonshot AI launched the Kimi API Platform on the AWS Marketplace. The integration provides consolidated billing for AWS customers and allows eligible organizations to apply Kimi API usage toward their existing AWS Enterprise Discount Program commitments. The platform features the Kimi K2.7 Code model, supporting multimodal inputs, long-context programming, and agentic tasks.
KimiJun 18Moonshot AI introduced Goal Mode in Kimi Work, enabling the desktop agent to run autonomously 24/7 until a task is complete. The mode manages long-horizon, multi-step workflows by maintaining persistent state across rounds, allowing the agent to gather information, modify code, and verify results without manual intervention.
KimiJun 15Moonshot AI is rolling out Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed, a speed-optimized version of its coding model. It delivers output speeds of approximately 180 tokens per second, reaching up to 260 tokens per second on short contexts. This mode is available to Kimi Code Beta members, API developers, and Business users at double the standard per-token pricing.
KimiJun 13Moonshot AI is offering a promotional credit bonus for Kimi API developers building with the new Kimi K2.7 Code model. Through July 2, 2026, single top-ups of $100 or more earn a tiered voucher bonus ranging from 20% to 30%. These vouchers are valid for 90 days and capped at $4,000.
KimiJun 13Moonshot AI released Kimi-K2.7-Code, an open-source coding model featuring significant benchmark gains, including a 21.8% improvement on Kimi Code Bench v2. The model achieves higher performance while using 30% fewer reasoning tokens than K2.6. It is available today via the Kimi API and Kimi Code, with a new beta program and high-speed mode launching soon.
KimiJun 9Moonshot AI has launched Kimi Work, a local desktop AI agent for macOS and Windows. It features a native agent swarm of up to 300 parallel agents, browser automation, and integrated finance tools to autonomously perform tasks and learn user preferences. This brings advanced agentic capabilities directly to the user's machine for continuous, personalized workflow automation.
KimiMay 15Moonshot AI released Kimi Web Bridge, a browser extension that allows AI agents to interact with websites by clicking, typing, and scrolling. The tool is interoperable, enabling terminal-based agents like Claude Code and Cursor to use the browser for research and task execution within the user's authenticated session.
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