Kimi 🧠 Models

Kimi is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 2 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 14 to Sep 14 (peak 32 on Sep 14).

Kimi models (K2, K3) from Chinese startup Moonshot AI; open-weight, strong at code and agents.

First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

Stage

💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources

Hype score

0 / 100 · 0 in 1 day · −1.9 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

32 on Sep 14, 2026

Category

🧠 Models

Part of

Open-weight models

Official site

kimi.com

Sources above normal

0 of 26 scoring it (0 independent families)

Stories in 7 days

90

Share of voice

0.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

Stories behind it

1. yetone/magpie: Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar. — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576
2. DeepSeek and Moonshot AI face Beijing's probe over potential data leaks to Anthropic — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 23 · score 307 · 92 comments
3. The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model — AI newsletters (RSS) (SemiAnalysis) · Sep 25 · score 126 · 0 comments
4. Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone — Hacker News (arxiv.org) · Sep 22 · score 73 · 26 comments
5. Complex KDA: Understanding and Enhancing the Expressivity of Kimi Delta Attention — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 22 · score 11 · 2 comments
6. Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff — Techmeme (The Information) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 5 comments
7. We Got 91% With Kimi. Repeatable 91% Is the Hard Part. — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 3 comments
8. Messing with #openclaw but finding it easy to crash the gateway asking the agent to make config changes. Also, am I late to the party and should be using something different as my PA? kimi-k2.6 as LL… — Mastodon (fediverse) (fosstodon.org) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 1 comment
9. China Probes DeepSeek, Moonshot Over Potential Data Leaks to Anthropic — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22
10. SWE-Prometheus: Measuring Engineering Governance Improvements in Real-World Repositories — arXiv (cs.CL / cs.AI / cs.LG) (cs.AI) · Sep 24
11. Apple just ran a 1T parameter model on four Mac Studios from one wall outlet — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 23 · score 192 · 106 comments
12. Vibe coding Minecraft: January this year vs. today — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 23 · score 156 · 23 comments

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 89 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Models — 66% of its stories
• Agents — 30% of its stories
• Protocols & infra — 13% of its stories
• Policy & macro — 13% of its stories
• Usage & adoption — 12% of its stories
• Companies & business — 12% of its stories

Related topics

Competes with

DeepSeek, GLM, Hunyuan, Qwen

Part of

Open-weight models

Mentioned with

Claude (85 stories), Gemini (29 stories), MiniMax (22 stories), Grok (22 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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