Moonshot AI (China) · last updated 2026-10-14
Moonshot Kimi
Kimi is Moonshot AI's chat product, distinguished early by very long context windows (in 2024, 2 million Chinese characters). The current model is Kimi K3 (released 2026-07-16). Kimi's agent mode shows the sites it visited and the sources it used. Strong adoption in Chinese knowledge-work and academic contexts.
Grounding model
Kimi models with web search grounding. In agent mode, Kimi browses sites and reports the pages visited. Moonshot does not document its search index. In our observation, long-context ingestion favours complete, well-structured pages over keyword-matched paragraphs.
Citation style
Agent mode shows the sites visited and the sources used. Moonshot does not document the standard-chat layout in detail.
What it rewards
- Long-form, comprehensive content that benefits from full-document ingestion
- Chinese-language coverage, particularly academic or research-oriented
- Clean document structure (headings, sections, references)
- Citable sentences distributed across the document, not just in the first paragraph
What it penalizes
- Thin or aggressively-chunked content
- Pages blocked from Chinese crawlers
- Content without clear semantic structure