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Financing and transaction coverage
Dates are our publication dates. Announcements and talks are not closing; different reports may concern the same transaction.
- · Moonshot AI · $3.5 billion · Financing (round not disclosed) · Reported
Kimi model and product milestones
Dates below are our coverage dates, which can differ from announcement dates. Company statements, third-party adoption and reported negotiations are labeled separately. Earlier coverage is available in Chinese where no English edition exists.
- K2.7-Code release
Moonshot said it used about 30% fewer reasoning tokens than K2.6; this is the company’s claim.
Read Chinese coverage ↗ - K3 debut
The 2.8 trillion-parameter model debuted. Total parameter count alone does not establish deployment cost.
Read Chinese coverage ↗ - Model weights and technical report
Moonshot released the weights and report. The license is not an unconditional commercial-use grant.
Read Chinese coverage ↗ - Harvey builds Tenet on K3
The legal AI company said it post-trained K3 for Tenet, an enterprise deployment example.
Read coverage ↗ - Cloud-hosting talks reported
Reuters reported revenue-sharing discussions with three cloud providers; no signed agreement was reported then.
Read coverage ↗ - Kimi Code Desktop covered
The coding-agent desktop workspace expands the product. Official notes date its release to September 17.
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#Kimi timeline · newest first
Sat, Nov 7
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro weights as Moore Threads adds GPU support
Open weights enable independent deployment, while GPU software adaptation broadens the choice of platforms on which the model can run.
Fri, Nov 6
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro weights as the model leads open entries on Agent Arena
Stronger open weights give companies control over deployment and serving, with hardware requirements, inference efficiency and operations jointly determining practical costs.
Tencent Hy4 scores 35 on Artificial Analysis and reaches workplace and coding products
Putting vision, tools and computer use into established workplace and coding products lets model capabilities translate into observable results in existing workflows.
Thu, Nov 5
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro weights, bringing its million-token model to self-hosting
Open weights turn model capability into an infrastructure choice, making serving efficiency and deployment support part of product competition.
Tue, Oct 27
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3.1 Pro and plans to release weights by November 4
Model competition increasingly turns on using professional software to deliver editable results from long tasks, alongside scale and benchmarks.
Mon, Oct 26
Kimi launches K3.1 Pro and Highspeed, with full weights due by November 4
Workflow capability and the actual weight-release date both matter for open-model adoption.
Kimi restores a week-equivalent quota and adjusts K3.1 Pro consumption
Agent usability depends increasingly on the quota consumed by each completed task.
SemiAnalysis models up to $3 per GPU-hour profit serving Kimi K3 on AMD
Inference economics depend on the complete serving stack and utilization, alongside chip specifications.
Sat, Oct 24
Kimi launches K3.1 Pro for extended tasks, with full weights due by November 4
Model releases are increasingly tied to coding, office work and tool execution, where long context must translate into completed tasks.
Thu, Oct 1
Baseten lets enterprises use Kimi K3 inside Codex, billed against their OpenAI commitments
Buying AI increasingly looks like ordering from one account, and whoever controls the checkout decides which models reach the table, even a rival's dish.
Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk vie to become China's Hugging Face
Open models are free; the fight is over where developers first download them, because that's often where they first pay for compute.
Fri, Sep 25
Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 is tipped for October, but the company has not confirmed a launch
More model modes do not automatically create more value; an upgrade must help the same job get done better, faster or at lower cost.
Fri, Sep 18
Kimi launches a finance suite with nine skills, more than 10 data plugins and managed enterprise agents
With Kimi's finance tools spread across several surfaces, competition shifts to licensed data and auditable delivery.
Chinese models reportedly reached 46% of U.S. OpenRouter weekly usage at one point, as open distribution expands reach
Chinese models' overseas reach is visible in token volume, but usage share and revenue share remain different measures.
Sat, Sep 12
Moonshot AI Reportedly Tops $1 Billion in August ARR as Kimi K3 Drives a More Than Threefold Increase
Kimi K3 has lifted Moonshot's revenue velocity; its next valuation depends more on retention and inference margins than on the steepness of an ARR curve.
Wed, Aug 26
OpenAI Reveals First Benchmarks for In-House Inference Chip Jalapeño — Per-Watt Performance Beats Nvidia GB300
A first-gen ASIC beating a current flagship GPU isn't a process-node win — it's the ability to put models, compilers, and silicon into the same iteration cycle.
Legal AI Firm Harvey Post-Trains Proprietary Model Tenet on Moonshot AI's Kimi K3
The decisive factor for open-weight models isn't the benchmark leaderboard — it's whether anyone is willing to put their core product on top of them.