Moonshot AI

Products and models

• Kimi Model · 2

Facts we checked

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• OpenAI says it is unclear whether all operators came from a single actor, but "we attribute a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi."

  Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign · OpenAI · archived copy · checked 1 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• Ember-1 is rolling out as a Research Preview on Fireworks Serverless alongside Kimi K3, with two-week access that Fireworks says may become permanent based on demand.

  Introducing Ember-1 · Fireworks AI · archived copy · checked 28 Sep 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• In Fireworks own comparison against Kimi K3 at max effort, Ember-1 shows reductions of 51.9 percent on Terminal Bench 2.1, 23.7 percent on DeepSWE 1.1 and 15.5 percent on SWE-bench Verified.

  Introducing Ember-1 · Fireworks AI · archived copy · checked 28 Sep 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

• Fireworks published Ember-1 on September 23, 2026, describing it as delivering Kimi K3 quality with 40 percent fewer tokens.

  Introducing Ember-1 · Fireworks AI · archived copy · checked 28 Sep 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

All 2 stories

• 1 Oct Safety and securityOpenAI disrupted a distillation campaign it partly ties to Moonshot
• 28 Sep Models and releasesFireworks says its Ember-1 research preview delivers Kimi K3 quality with 40 percent fewer tokens.

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