Chinese start-up Moonshot AI has released a new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, called Kimi K2, that is touted to excel in frontier knowledge, maths, coding and general agentic tasks, as the company looks to maintain an edge against rivals such as DeepSeek.
Beijing-based Moonshot said Kimi K2 was developed with a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and boasts 1 trillion total parameters, with 32 billion so-called activated parameters – specialised computational units engaged…




