@kimi_moonshot launched Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, a 3T-class open-weight model with 2.8T total / 104B active params (MoE), 1M-token context, and multimodal support.
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Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro: 2.8T open-weight model hits 4th on Artificial Analysis, 55 score, weights promised by Nov 4
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What happened
@kimi_moonshot launched Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, a 3T-class open-weight model with 2.8T total / 104B active params (MoE), 1M-token context, and multimodal support. Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (2-3x faster) are live on Kimi's website, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API, with open weights promised by November 4, 2026. @kimi_moonshot says K3.1 Pro is more reliable at finance work with hallucination down by 65% and excels at parameteric 3D modeling in Blender & CAD.
+ 7 more in the evidence register ↓Why it matters
Kimi K3.1 Pro is the week's concrete development: an open-weight release that @artificialanlys says will be the leading open-weights model once weights publish, and that would be the first open model to close in on proprietary leaders like Claude Opus 5.5. The paid Hyperliquid pre-IPO market for Moonshot (io:MOONSHOT, ~$46K ticker registration) shows crypto-native traders pricing the company before its promised Hong Kong IPO, making this a rare AI-crypto crossover catalyst.
Observed reaction
Split and practical: bullish on benchmarks from @artificialanlys (55 index score, 4th overall, leading open-weights once released) and @kimi_moonshot (hallucinations down 65% on finance work), but bearish on subscription value from @mcray69 and @linahuaa (worse limits than Claude's $20 sub, $100 Kimi sub worse value) and @zunem01 (Kimi and Zai unusable, Deepseek most reliable). @sevenup27 called Kimi's $0.31 result impressive. The Hyperliquid pre-IPO market coverage is neutral-to-speculative: market halted, Entropy silent.
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Where it started and who carried it
- First seen
- Oct 19, 11:48 UTC by @bythegentleman
- Accounts
- 9 tracked · 7 elsewhere on X
- Communities
- eth defi (2), general ct (2), perps trading (2), prediction mkts (1)
- Key accounts
- @kimi_moonshot, @artificialanlys, @polymarket, @kimidevs, @teortaxestex
Explainability
Evidence register
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (2-3x faster) are live on Kimi's website, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API, with open weights promised by November 4, 2026.
[1]@kimi_moonshot says K3.1 Pro is more reliable at finance work with hallucination down by 65% and excels at parameteric 3D modeling in Blender & CAD.
[1]@artificialanlys reported Kimi K3.1 Pro launches at 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 55, an 11-point gain over Kimi K3 (max, 44).
[1]@artificialanlys says K3.1 Pro trails only Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback, 58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback, 56), and Muse Wonder Full (max, 56), and will be the leading open-weights model once its weights are published.
[1]@zunbeamzero wrote that Moonshot's Thursday-night teaser became a Friday product release, with Kimi K3.1 Pro and a Highspeed version available in Kimi Code and via its API, and official docs listing up to 1 million tokens of context.
[1]@zunbeamzero wrote that Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23 across its apps, coding product and API, that the 2.8T-parameter model activates 104B and offers up to 1M tokens of context, and that full weights are promised.
[1]@bythegentleman reported that @entropyIO registered io:MOONSHOT on Hyperliquid, a pre-IPO market on Moonshot AI, paying ~575 HYPE (about $46K) for the ticker, with the market still halted and Entropy not commenting.
[1]@bythegentleman reported the io:MOONSHOT starting price is 67.24, which he says implies a ~$67B Moonshot valuation, against a last private round of ~$50B in October and a planned Hong Kong IPO.
[1]@bythegentleman reported Kraken and Aster already have Moonshot perps, with Kraken at $0 volume over the last day and Aster at ~$6.9K.
[1]Angles
- Chart race: Kimi K3.1 Pro's 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs Claude Opus 5.5 (58), Sonnet 5.5 (56), and Muse Wonder Full (56) — with a countdown to the November 4 open-weights release.
- The crypto pre-IPO angle: Entropy paid ~575 HYPE (~$46K) to register io:MOONSHOT on Hyperliquid while Kraken lists Moonshot perps at $0 volume and Aster at ~$6.9K — what does thin perp liquidity say about pricing Moonshot before its Hong Kong IPO?
- Spec check for builders: 2.8T total / 104B active params, 1M-token context, multimodal, full-project coding in Unreal/Unity/Godot, Blender & CAD — compare against closed models at the same 1M-context tier.
Formats in use
- launch thread with specs and benchmarks
- benchmark index screenshot/chart
- daily newsletter-style roundup
- quote-tweet debate over subscription value
- pre-IPO market screenshot and ticker callout
Risks
- Token/price discussion around Moonshot perps and io:MOONSHOT is speculative; do not present as financial advice or price prediction.
- Benchmark ranking (4th on Artificial Analysis, 55) is a third-party metric and can shift if other models update; attribute it to @artificialanlys and note the index version.
- Open weights are promised by Nov 4, 2026, not yet released — frame all open-weight leadership claims as contingent.
- Subscription-limit complaints from @mcray69, @linahuaa, and @zunem01 are anecdotal user reports, not verified benchmarks.
- @bythegentleman's report about Entropy's Hyperliquid registration and Kraken/Aster perp volume is unverified by the exchanges or Entropy; flag as unconfirmed.
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Chinese models especially Kimi and Zai is unusable. Deepseek is the most reliable of them all.Open on X →
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Entropy Just Paid $46K For Kimi This morning @entropyIO registered io:MOONSHOT on Hyperliquid, a pre-IPO market on Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi It paid ~575 HYPE, about $46K, for the ticker. The market is still halted and Entropy hasn't said a word about it The startinOpen on X →
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