Major Release Moonshot AI LLM Modified MIT (open weights)

Moonshot AI Kimi K2

Moonshot's open-weight frontier MoE with strong agentic benchmarks.

Released 2026-01-20 · 1.04T MoE · 2M tokens context · knowledge cutoff 2025-10

Overview

First open-weight model to rank #1 on LMSYS Chatbot Arena with over 1 trillion parameters

Specifications

DeveloperMoonshot AI
Release date2026-01-20
Model typeLLM
Parameters1.04T MoE
ArchitectureMoE (32B active / ~1T total)
Context window2M tokens
Max output32K
Knowledge cutoff2025-10
LicenseModified MIT (open weights)
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext

Benchmarks

Benchmark Kimi K2 Moonshot KimiΔ
LMSYS Arena #1
Parameters 1.04T
Cost $0.15/M tokens
MMLU 91.3%
SWE-bench Verified 65.8%
GPQA Diamond 74.1%
LiveCodeBench 68.9%

Pricing

$0.15
per 1M input tokens
$2.50
per 1M output tokens

Availability

Open Source Moonshot API Hugging Face Together AI

What's new vs Moonshot Kimi

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Official references

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