What is Kimi?
Kimi is an AI assistant and a family of AI models made by Moonshot AI. Developers can use the models through the Kimi API, which works with the OpenAI and Anthropic API formats. The models cover general tasks, coding and understanding images.
Moonshot AI's documentation describes the Kimi API as a way to use Kimi models from code. It is compatible with both the OpenAI and the Anthropic API formats. The models on offer range from general-purpose ones to ones built for coding, and they cover programming, visual understanding and complex reasoning.
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- Quickstart · Moonshot AI