Moonshot AI Open Models: Model List and Licenses
About Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI is the Chinese AI company behind the Kimi assistant. It releases the Kimi language models on its moonshotai organization on Hugging Face.
It stands out for releasing very large MoE models as open weights; the latest, Kimi K3, has 2.8T parameters in total.
What It Releases
- Kimi K3 (June 2026): according to its model card, Moonshot AI’s most capable model to date and the world’s first open 3T-class model, with 2.8T parameters. It uses Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) and Attention Residuals, is an MoE with 16 of 896 experts active, has native vision and a one-million-token context, and is built for sustaining long engineering sessions with minimal human oversight.
- The Kimi K2 line (2025 to 2026): from K2 (about 1T total) through K2.5, K2.6 and K2.7-Code.
- Smaller models: Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B (about 3B active), Kimi-VL-A3B (about 16B total, reads images) and Kimi-Audio-7B.
Licenses
- Kimi K3 uses its own “Kimi K3 License". A licensee operating a Model-as-a-Service business with more than US$20 million in revenue over any 12 consecutive months must enter a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before commercial use. Products with more than 100 million monthly active users or more than US$20 million in monthly revenue must prominently display “Kimi K3".
- The K2 line uses a “Modified MIT" license with a similar display requirement for products of that scale.
- Kimi-Linear, Kimi-VL and Kimi-Audio are MIT.
This summary is not legal advice; read each model’s license text before use.
Running Them Locally
- Kimi K3 and K2 do not run on consumer hardware. All 1T to 2.8T parameters must be loaded.
- For local use, Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B and Kimi-VL-A3B are the candidates. There are no official GGUF builds (as of 2026-09-26).
Sources: the model card and license text of moonshotai/Kimi-K3; the license text of moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6; the model list of the moonshotai organization on Hugging Face (all as of 2026-09-26).
Our Coverage and Data
Local Model Watch has not published an article on Moonshot AI’s models yet. The model list below is collected by code from Hugging Face every day. Part of our publisher index; model families link to their family pages.
At a Glance
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Hugging Face organization | moonshotai |
| Models on Hugging Face | 19 |
| Articles on its own models | 0 |
| Articles on derived models | 0 |
Recent Models on Hugging Face
The publisher lists 19 models in total on Hugging Face. Below are up to 15 of the most recent generative models (text, image, video, audio and so on), the scope of this site, per organization. Classifiers, feature extractors, research components and repositories without a model card are omitted, and the publisher’s own quantized builds and helper variants are folded into the row of the original model. Parameter counts are left blank for repositories that pack weights into integer types, where Hugging Face’s count is not the real parameter count.
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| Released | Model | Task | Parameters | License | Official variants |
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| 2026-06-13 | moonshotai/Kimi-K3 | vision-language | — | kimi-k3 |
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| 2026-06-11 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code | vision-language | — | modified-mit |
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| 2026-04-14 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | vision-language | — | modified-mit |
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| 2026-01-01 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 | vision-language | — | modified-mit |
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| 2025-11-04 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking | text generation | — | modified-mit |
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| 2025-10-30 | moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base | text generation | 49.1B | mit |
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| 2025-10-30 | moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct | text generation | 49.1B | mit |
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| 2025-09-03 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 | text generation | 1026.5B | modified-mit |
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| 2025-07-11 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct | text generation | 1026.4B | modified-mit |
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| 2025-07-03 | moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Base | text generation | 1026.5B | modified-mit |
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| 2025-06-21 | moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 | vision-language | 16.4B | mit |
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| 2025-06-16 | moonshotai/Kimi-Dev-72B | text generation | 72.7B | mit |
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| 2025-04-25 | moonshotai/Kimi-Audio-7B | audio | 9.8B | mit |
Instruct |
| 2025-04-09 | moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking | vision-language | 16.4B | mit |
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| 2025-04-09 | moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct | vision-language | 16.4B | mit |
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From the Hugging Face API. Last changed 2026-09-27 (JST). Collected by code.
Last updated 2026-09-27 (JST). The explanation at the top of this page was written with the help of AI from the primary sources it cites. The tables and lists under “Our Coverage and Data" are assembled by code from our article log and the Hugging Face API.