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A Chinese AI developer that makes the chatbot and model "Kimi." It is a regular fixture at the top of open-source model rankings. Headquartered in Beijing, this startup is, despite its name "Moonshot," a software company with no connection to space exploration or aerospace business. Its flagship model Kimi has been released with an emphasis on its ability to handle long context in a single pass, and it is often grouped together with DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others as part of the lineage of Chinese-made open-source models. As of August 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic have China AI

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  1. 1,281Remote Control is now live in Kimi Work.영상2026-09-09