Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2 Thinking

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Released Kimi K2 Thinking — 1T total / 32B active MoE, 256K context, native INT4 inference via quantization-aware training in post-training, under a Modified MIT License

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An open-weight reasoning agent trained to interleave thinking with tool calls; Moonshot claims it sustains 200–300 sequential tool calls without human intervention

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In the model family tree — Kimi family · 8 versions

  1. Earlier versionKimi Linear
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