Kimi Overview
Kimi is an AI assistant developed in-house by Moonshot. It supports web-connected search, deep thinking, multimodal reasoning, and ultra-long text conversations.
Visit Kimi.com or download the Kimi App to start chatting, creating, researching, and building applications. Developers can go to the Kimi Open Platform to get APIs and tools, and integrate Kimi capabilities into their own applications.
Chat modes
- Search mode: Connects to the web for real-time information and supports searching online information.
- Fast mode: Quickly answers with relevant information.
- Thinking mode: Supports deeper multi-round thinking and search—ideal for coding, logic, and analysis tasks.
Tip: For simple document-based Q&A, you can turn off both Search mode and Thinking mode.
Agent
Kimi is more than a chat assistant. It is also an AI Agent that can carry out tasks autonomously:
- General Agent: Automatically plans and completes tasks, including website generation, PPT creation, Deep Research, document and spreadsheet processing, and more.
- Agent Swarm: Supports up to 1,500 parallel tool calls and can autonomously orchestrate 100+ Sub-agents to process tasks in parallel. Suitable for large-scale search, long-form writing, and batch processing tasks.
- Kimi Code: A coding assistant suite for developers, including a CLI tool and VS Code extension.
- Kimi Claw: A zero-deployment cloud automation platform. No server or Docker is required; you can launch a continuously running AI Agent within 30 seconds. It includes a built-in library of 5,000+ skills (ClawHub), supports chained composition and multi-step autonomous planning, and makes complex research and data analysis workflows easy to complete.
Other core features
- Featured tools: Photo-based problem solving, voice calls, translation, and writing.
- File processing: Supports PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, images, TXT, and videos (up to 100 MB per file), with up to 50 files supported.
- Quick prompts: Add your frequently used quick prompts. Ideal for saving high-quality, reusable prompts as quick prompts.
Basic chat
Chat is where everything starts. You can ask questions, upload files, and switch between models and Agent mode.
Search
Search serves as the model’s real-time knowledge base, used to obtain timely, reliable, and traceable information.
Memory Space
Saves your preferences over the long term and refers to past chats in future conversations.
Agent
Carries out tasks autonomously. Just state your goal—websites, documents, data analysis, and PPT are all supported.