Moonshot AI launches Kimi-K2-Instruct Model

AI Impact Summary

Moonshot AI launched the Kimi-K2-Instruct model, a 1 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model offering frontier-level performance. This release includes enhanced tool use, multi-step task capabilities, and strong multilingual support, alongside agentic and function calling features. The launch also introduces significant infrastructure updates, including Slurm-on-Kubernetes improvements and a shift to a fully prepaid billing model with dynamic rate limits.