Kimi-DevOpen Weight
Kimi-Dev is an AI model released by Moonshot AI on Tuesday, Jun 17 2025, 68 days after Kimi-VL. It is an open-weight model — the trained weights are available to download and run. It is a 72B parameter model.
Kimi-Dev — frequently asked questions
- When was Kimi-Dev released?
- Kimi-Dev was released by Moonshot AI on Tuesday, Jun 17 2025.
- Who made Kimi-Dev?
- Kimi-Dev was built by Moonshot AI. Chinese AI company building the Kimi family of models. Founded in 2023, known for long-context and efficient MoE architectures.
- How many parameters does Kimi-Dev have?
- Kimi-Dev is reported at 72B parameters.
- Is Kimi-Dev open source?
- Partly. Kimi-Dev is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.
- What came before and after Kimi-Dev?
- Moonshot AI's previous tracked release was Kimi-VL on Apr 10 2025, 68 days earlier. It was followed by Kimi K2 on Jul 11 2025.