Type: AI company
Moonshot is the common name for Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based lab behind the Kimi model family, including trillion-parameter-class mixture-of-experts models focused on agentic coding. It is among the notable Chinese frontier labs. GROUNDING tracks Moonshot’s Kimi releases, benchmarks, and open-weight strategy.
Recent Updates
- 2026-07-16: Moonshot announces Kimi K3 (@ai_newz) · t.me — LLM Evals Kimi K3 · Opus 4.8 · Fable · Sol Sonn
- 2026-07-17: US-China AI competition is splitting into open-model expansion versus controlled access (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Open Source LLMs Long Context LLM Evals Google DeepMind · Reuters · Anthropic · White House World Artificial Intelligence Conference World AI Cooperation Organisation Pax Silica AI Opportunity Statement BRICS ASEAN United Nations Chinese state media Demis Hassabis Xi Jinping Trump · Kimi K3 · DeepSeek V4 Pro Claude Fable 5 Max · GPT-5.6 Sol · Opus 4.8 · GPT 5.5 · R1
- 2026-07-18: Latent Space roundup: Kimi K3, Databricks funding, and agent sandbox infrastructure (Latent.Space) · latent.space — Latent.Space · AINews · Databricks · OpenRouter · ChatGPT · e2b Daytona · Modal AIE NYC Abhishek Bhardwaj Greg Brockman Alex Atallah Zhilin Yang Salakhutdinov kimmonismus AnikaSomaia dylan522p novasarc01 scaling01 theo hqmank · Kimi K3 · Claude Fable 5 · Opus 4.8 · GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT 5.5 · GPT-5.6 Sol
- 2026-07-19: Weekly AI digest highlights model releases, open-source audio, and a new OpenAI merch device (@ai_newz) · t.me — Open Source LLMs Agents Anthropic · OpenAI · GigaChat Suno Kyutai · Epic Games YouTube Music · Fable 5 · Kimi K3 · Qwen3.6 GigaAM Multilingual MIRA · Opus 4.8
- 2026-07-23: Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, an open coding model with 1M-token context (Искусственный интеллект – AI, ANN и иные формы искусственного разума) · habr.com — Code Agents Open Source LLMs Long Context LLM Evals Poolside · NVIDIA · Hugging Face · OpenAI · DeepSeek Thinking Machines · OpenRouter · Xiaomi · Tencent · Z ai · Anthropic · GitHub · Axios · White House US Department of Commerce Jason Warner David Sacks · Laguna S 2.1 · GPT-OSS 120B DeepSeek V4 lite · Nemotron 3 Ultra · Inkling · Kimi K3
FAQ
What is Moonshot?
Moonshot is the common name for Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based lab behind the Kimi model family, including trillion-parameter-class mixture-of-experts models focused on agentic coding. It is among the notable Chinese frontier labs. GROUNDING tracks Moonshot’s Kimi releases, benchmarks, and open-weight strategy.
What does this page track?
Dated radar mentions, source links, related concepts, and builder-relevant context for Moonshot, collected automatically by GROUNDING.
When was Moonshot last mentioned?
Moonshot was most recently mentioned in a radar update dated 2026-07-23.
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