# Kimi Kimi is the family of [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]], consumer chatbot, and developer surfaces built by [[Moonshot AI]]. The name comes from the Kimi assistant originally launched in late 2023 as a long-context Chinese AI chatbot, and has since expanded into a full stack: the Kimi app, the Kimi API at platform.kimi.ai, [[Kimi Code]] (coding CLI / IDE surface), and the open-weight K2 model series. Kimi's defining bet is **long-context and long-horizon autonomy**: long-form document reasoning in the early versions, then agentic coding and multi-hour tool use in the K2 line. ## Product surfaces - **kimi.com** — web chatbot - **Kimi App** — mobile assistant (iOS / Android) - **Kimi API** (platform.kimi.ai) — developer access, OpenAI-compatible endpoints - **[[Kimi Code]]** — coding-focused product for long-horizon software work - **Kimi ACP** — Agent Client Protocol harness, usable from [[OpenClaw]] and similar orchestrators ## Model line (K2 series) The K2 series is Moonshot's open-weight [[AI Mixture of Experts (MoE)|MoE]] line: - **[[Kimi K2.5]]** — 1T total parameters, ~32B active per token; runnable on a 96GB MacBook Pro at ~1.7 tok/s via [[AI Expert Offloading]] - **[[Kimi K2.6]]** (April 2026) — successor emphasizing long-horizon coding (4,000+ tool calls / 12+ hours), 300-agent swarms, and competitive agentic benchmarks vs [[Claude Opus 4.7]], [[GPT-5.4]], [[Gemini 3]] Earlier Kimi chat was positioned as a Chinese-language long-context assistant; the K2 line reframed Kimi as an agentic coding platform. ## Positioning - Open-weight alternative to [[Anthropic]] / [[OpenAI]] for agentic coding work - Long context and long-horizon stability as the primary axis, not raw reasoning - First-class integrations with open-source agent harnesses (OpenClaw, ACP ecosystem) ## References - Official website: https://www.kimi.com/ - Blog: https://www.kimi.com/blog - K2.6 announcement: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 - API platform: https://platform.kimi.ai ## Related - [[Moonshot AI]] - [[Yang Zhilin]] - [[Kimi K2.6]] - [[Kimi K2.5]] - [[Kimi Code]] - [[Kimi CLI]] - [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - [[AI Mixture of Experts (MoE)]] - [[AI Open Weight Models]] - [[AI Expert Offloading]] - [[AI Frontier Model]] - [[OpenClaw]] - [[Deepseek]] - [[Zhipu AI (Z.ai)]] - [[Qwen]]