Kimi K2 Thinking
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Moonshot AI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Yang Zhilin — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- China
- K · Key Staffers
- Yang Zhilin (CEO/Founder)
- L · Languages
- Chinese-primary
- M · Model Type
- Reasoning LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Modified MIT); no longer on Kimi API price list
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 7/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 7.5/10 · Currency 5/10 · Access 10/10 · Significance 7/10 → 7.30
- R · What Makes It Special
- Kimi K2 Thinking, Moonshot AI's open-weight (modified MIT) thinking agent built from Kimi K2: a 1T-parameter mixture-of-experts with 32B active and a 256K-token context, trained end to end to interleave step-by-step reasoning with tool calls and to stay on task across 200 to 300 sequential calls, and natively quantized to INT4 for about 2x faster low-latency inference. Moonshot reports 44.9 on HLE (text-only) with tools, 60.2 on BrowseComp and 71.3 on SWE-bench Verified.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($35B valuation, Jul 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- Yes
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @Kimi_Moonshot
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Reasoning LLM from Moonshot AI, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Kimi K2 Thinking.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/moonshot-ai-kimi-k2-thinking.html
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