Kimi Hosted Agents runs the agent loop, sandboxes and session state for you on Moonshot's China platform, with 140+ skills, MCP and an enterprise input hook.
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro and a 2-3x faster Highspeed variant are out today. The full weights are promised by 4 November, and the K2 models are being retired.
Bloomberg, carried by the Japan Times, Straits Times, and Business Times, says Moonshot closed private fundraising near a $50 billion value and is aiming at a Hong Kong IPO in early 2027.
On 2 October 2026 GitHub deprecated Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Claude Opus 4.7 across Copilot, pointing users to Gemini 3.8 Flash, Kimi K3, and Claude Opus 5.5.
OpenAI says it disrupted a July 2026 adversarial distillation campaign that sought protected reasoning via ToS-violating interaction patterns—not a crypto/DB breach. Core cluster attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI (Kimi); volumes are attempted extractions.