The Moonshot recently officially launched its new main model K2.8 Preview, and it has been fully rolled out on the Kimi Code and Kimi Work platforms. According to official information, this model has already approached its flagship-level Kimi K3 model in overall performance, especially achieving significant improvements in programming (Coding) and agent capabilities. It also fully supports a 1M (1 million) ultra-long context and is available for all membership tiers.

Looking back at its development process, previously Kimi K3, with its outstanding front-end capabilities, helped the company's annual recurring revenue (ARR) surge from $300 million in June to successfully break through the $1 billion mark in August.

Looking at the evolution of this topic, Moonshot has maintained a high frequency of product iterations and technological advancements this year:

On January 28, 2026, after the release of Kimi K2.5, it topped the global open-source list within 24 hours, and the official programming tool Kimi Code was also officially released on the same day.

On April 21, 2026, Kimi K2.6 was released and open-sourced, with a comprehensive improvement in cluster capabilities. Subsequently, on April 29, it was reported that Kimi K3, with a parameter scale of 2.5 trillion, was planned to be released in the third quarter.

On June 3, 2026, the general-purpose local agent Kimi Work Beta for knowledge workers entered the internal testing phase; on June 16, the high-speed version of Kimi K2.7Code with an ultra-fast programming experience was officially launched.

On July 16, 2026, a preheating video of Kimi K3 leaked, with multiple comparisons directly targeting industry competitors.

On August 24, 2026, the first generation of trillion-parameter multimodal model Kimi K2.5 announced the end of its service at the end of the month.

On September 12, 2026, Kimi K2.8Preview was launched, and the million-context permission was fully extended to all members.