Kimi by Moonshot AI — Product Research | aVenture

Kimi is Moonshot AI's AI assistant, reachable through the web, mobile apps, macOS and Windows desktop clients, a browser extension, and an API on the Kimi developer platform. It handles cited web search, document and spreadsheet analysis, slide creation, code execution, and multi-step agentic tasks.

The assistant runs on Moonshot AI's K-series models, with Kimi K3, released on July 16, 2026, as the current flagship: a natively multimodal model carrying a one-million-token context window. The general-purpose K2.6 model and the K2.7 Code coding model remain available alongside it for API use, each supporting a 256,000-token context window.

Kimi - Direct Competitors

Attribute	Kimi	Claude	DeepSeek-V4	GLM Model API	Grok	Inkling
Provider	Moonshot AI moonshot-ai.com$3.6B disclosed funding · Series D	Anthropic anthropic.com$144.8B disclosed funding · Series H	DeepSeek deepseek.com$1B disclosed funding · Series A	Z.ai z.ai$10.8B disclosed funding · Public	SpaceXAI x.ai$262.1B disclosed funding	Thinking Machines Lab thinkingmachines.ai$2B disclosed funding · Seed
Founded	2023	2021	2023	2019	2023	2025
Sells To	Enterprises	Enterprises	Enterprises	Enterprise	Consumers, Enterprise	—
Pricing Model	Subscription	Recurring, Usage-based	Subscription	Usage-based	Recurring, Software	—
Ownership	Private	Venture Capital	Private	Public	Equity, Venture Capital	—