
Kimi
Moonshot AI's AI assistant K3 is specially built for agent programming and knowledge work. It supports long text processing, in-depth research, Swarm agent clusters, Goal mode, PPT generation and scheduled tasks.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Kimi?
Kimi is an AI assistant launched by Moonshot AI. The official website currently features the main title "K3 Launched, Built Exclusively for Agent Programming and Knowledge Work". In addition to regular conversations, it offers access to scheduled tasks, PPTs, clusters, deep research, documents, websites, spreadsheets and design. It also differentiates product forms for different scenarios such as Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and Kimi Claw. There is also a desktop application available for download, along with capabilities like projects and plugins, making it easy to organize and reuse multi-round work.
Who is it for?
- Individual users who need long document processing and knowledge work assistants, including students, researchers, and professionals; technical users who want AI to handle programming and multi-step tasks; as well as teams and developers who wish to use agent swarms to parallelize complex workflows and require multi-step automation.
Key features
6Long Text Processing
A consistent strength of Kimi, it excels at parsing, summarizing and answering questions about long documents, making it ideal for organizing and skimming through lengthy materials such as research reports, theses and contracts.
In-depth Research
Performs multi-step retrieval and information integration for complex issues, producing structured conclusions. It is suitable for research tasks that require verification and induction, and you can continue to ask for details after the output is generated.
Agent Swarm and Goal Mode
The official states that multiple agents can execute tasks in parallel, and the Goal Mode continuously advances toward the target, making it suitable for multi-step and multi-branch workflows.
PPT Generation
The official states that K3 can generate consulting-level PPTs. Combined with multi-form outputs such as documents, websites, spreadsheets, and designs, it covers most output forms of knowledge work.
Agent Programming
K3 focuses on agent programming capabilities, and in conjunction with forms like Kimi Code and Kimi Claw, serves technical users. The official states that it can be used to build playable multiplayer and 3D games.
Scheduled Tasks and Plugins
You can set up periodically auto-executed tasks and have a plugin system to expand capabilities, making it suitable for entrusting repetitive work to the AI for regular execution, such as daily news aggregation and routine reports.
How to use Kimi
- Long document and data organization are its most stable scenarios, and it can be directly put into daily use.
- for in-depth research, break down the problem into details and let the model retrieve and integrate step by step, and the quality is usually better than one-time questioning.
- agent clusters are suitable for "trial and error in parallel" tasks, with small-scale verification first and then scaling up.
- scheduled tasks are suitable for fixed tasks such as daily news aggregation and routine reports, and you only need to set them and regularly check the output quality.
- consolidate commonly used prompts and processes into projects for direct reuse next time to reduce repetitive work.
- technical forms such as Kimi Code are suitable for supporting in local development workflows, with small-scale pilot tests first and then promotion.
Things to know
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Kimi receives about 17.7M visits per month and ranks #3,185 worldwide.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct70.7%
- Search15.5%
- Referrals6.5%
- AI assistants4.2%
- Social1.5%
- Other1.7%
Top countries
- China68.1%
- United States6.6%
- Hong Kong, China3.4%
- India2.5%
- Russia1.6%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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