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Moonshot / Kimi
Kimi K3.1
Estimated release
Oct 29, 2026
Late Oct 2026
Details
- Status
- Leaked in Moonshot config snippets in late July; the reported August target has passed
- Current model
- Kimi K3, 43.6 on the Intelligence Index, released Jul 16, 2026 ()
- Projected score
- About 46.6 (+3)
- Typical cycle
- About 90 days between releases
Why this date
- Kimi K3.1 appeared in leaked Moonshot config snippets (late July) with Low/High/Max reasoning effort and up to 1M context; the leak targeted August
- Moonshot has not confirmed it, and August came and went, so the date is pushed out to late October
- Kimi K3 (Jul 16, 43.6) is now behind MiMo-V2.6-Pro (46.3) and GLM-5.3 (44.8) among open-weight models
- Kimi K3 became generally available on Amazon Bedrock on Sept 18, 2026
Source: Kimi K3.1 config leak (Jul 27-28, 2026), Amazon Bedrock Kimi K3 GA (Sept 18, 2026) & Artificial Analysis
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