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Kimi K2 ThinkingOpen Source

Released 6 months ago · Nov 6 2025
Parameters
1T
Context Window
256k
Science
GPQA Diamond
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
71.3%

About Kimi K2 Thinking

Kimi K2 Thinking is an AI model released by Moonshot AI on Nov 6 2025, 36 days after Kimi Linear. It is the 8th tracked release from Moonshot AI out of 10 total. It is an open-source / open-weight model.

It has 1T parameters. Its context window is 256k.

On published benchmarks, 71.3% on SWE-Bench Verified (real-world software engineering).

About Moonshot AI: Chinese AI company building the Kimi family of models. Founded in 2023, known for long-context and efficient MoE architectures.

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