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Kimi
AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus
Moonshot AI · China
Kimi K3.1 Pro (open weights 5 Nov †), the largest open-weight model. Moonshot is valued at ~$50B and targets a Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Kimi K3.1 Pro
- 3T-class open-weight flagship (announced 23 Oct, weights 5 Nov †); 1M-token context. Replaces K3.
- Kimi app
- Consumer assistant and coding plans.
Recent news
- Moonshot posts open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, its new 3T-class flagship †Replaces K3; Moonshot reports coding scores close to Opus 5.5. Announced 23 Oct.Kimi ↗
- Moonshot closes its final private round at $50B, eyes a Hong Kong IPOUp to $5B IPO targeted for Q1 2027 with CICC and Goldman.Bloomberg ↗
- Moonshot launches Kimi AI tools for financial servicesMoves into paid vertical products, with banks and VC firms such as CICC already using KimiCNBC ↗
- Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters tops open-weight size ceilingHugging Face names it the largest open-weight model and evidence of China leading frontier open releasesHugging Face ↗
- Moonshot raises $3.5B at a $35B valuationThe round was well above its $1-2B target, driven by K3, and a Hong Kong IPO is reportedly filedBloomberg ↗
- Moonshot unveils Kimi K3 to rival OpenAI and AnthropicNarrows the gap with leading US models and is widely rated the best open-weight coding modelCNBC ↗
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