Kimi is Moonshot AI's model and product family, first widely recognized for long-context reading and question answering, then expanding into coding, tool use, agents, multimodal capability, and open-model directions. Its product surface includes both the consumer-facing Kimi assistant and developer-facing APIs.

Kimi is important to track because long context only matters if it translates into complex task execution: long-document analysis, codebase understanding, knowledge retrieval, web tasks, and office automation. It is also a useful signal for how Chinese AI startups balance frontier models, product experience, and developer platforms.