Moonshot AI
- TYPE
- Company
- SIGNALS
- 6
- FIRST SEEN
- Oct 23, 2026
- LAST SEEN
- Oct 29, 2026
Recent signals
- Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown (The Information) Oct 29, 2026
- Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) Oct 25, 2026
- Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) Oct 23, 2026
- Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max) (@artificialanlys) Oct 23, 2026
- Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4 (Kimi) Oct 23, 2026
- Moonshot Debuts First AI Upgrade Since Its Own DeepSeek Moment Oct 23, 2026