Explore Kimi AI statistics covering model capability, technical design, and real-world traction in China. You’ll see results on MMLU, HumanEval, CMMLU, and GSM8K, plus what those scores suggest about reliability in math and coding. The overview also connects performance to specifics like multilingual training, Mixture of Experts, and inference speed—then follows growth signals such as monthly/daily active users, iOS downloads, and retention.
Key Takeaways
- Kimi ranks #1 on LMSYS Chatbot Arena for Chinese queries
- Outperforms GPT-4 in long-context retrieval by 15%
- Beats Claude 3 in Chinese math benchmarks by 8 points
- Moonshot AI raised $740 million in Series B at $2.3 billion valuation
- Initial seed funding of $100 million led by Alibaba in 2023
- Total funding to date exceeds $1 billion across rounds
- Kimi AI model scored 85.2% on the MMLU benchmark for 5-shot evaluation
- Kimi-1.5 achieved 78.9% accuracy on HumanEval coding benchmark
- In CMMLU evaluation, Kimi topped with 82.3% score among Chinese LLMs
- Kimi-1.5 uses Mixture of Experts architecture with 200B parameters active
- Inference speed of 150 tokens/second on A100 GPUs
- Trained on 15 trillion token dataset multilingual
- Kimi chatbot reached 10 million monthly active users by Q1 2024
- Daily active users for Kimi AI exceeded 3 million in March 2024
- Kimi app downloads surpassed 20 million on iOS App Store China
Kimi leads Chinese benchmarks and user growth with strong accuracy, fast inference, and up to 20% lower API costs.
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Comparisons And Rankings14 stats
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Kimi ranks #1 on LMSYS Chatbot Arena for Chinese queries
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Outperforms GPT-4 in long-context retrieval by 15%
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Beats Claude 3 in Chinese math benchmarks by 8 points
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20% cheaper API pricing than GPT-4o equivalent
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Higher Elo score 1250 vs DeepSeek's 1220 on Arena
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Surpasses Qwen-72B in CMMLU by 3.2%
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Kimi's context retention 95% vs Llama3's 85%
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Market share 2x Baidu Ernie in China apps
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User preference 65% over Doubao in polls
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Inference cost $0.1per million tokens vs $0.3 for GPT
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Speed 2x faster than Gemini 1.5 Pro on benchmarks
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Coding accuracy 5% above Grok-1 on HumanEval
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Vision understanding matches GPT-4V 92% similarity
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Beats Yi-34B in multilingual tasks by 7%
Interpretation
Comparisons And Rankings Interpretation
Kimi’s comparisons and rankings stand out with clear lead margins, placing it #1 on LMSYS for Chinese queries and ahead of major rivals by 15% on long-context retrieval, 8 points on Chinese math, and 20% lower API costs than GPT-4o equivalent.
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Funding And Investment16 stats
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Moonshot AI raised $740 million in Series B at $2.3 billion valuation
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Initial seed funding of $100 million led by Alibaba in 2023
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Total funding to date exceeds $1 billion across rounds
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Series A round closed at $300 million valuation $1 billion post-money
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Strategic investment from Tencent worth $200 million
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Employee equity pool valued at 15% post-Series B
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R&D budget allocation $500 million annually from funding
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Valuation multiple of 50x revenue in latest round
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12 unicorn investors including Sequoia China
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Burn rate of $20 million per month post-funding
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Pre-IPO round planned for 2025 at $5B valuation
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Government grants added $50 million for AI infra
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Revenue from API hit $100 million ARR in 2024
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Cost per training run $10 million for Kimi-1.5
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Infrastructure capex $300 million from investors
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Kimi supports up to 2 million token context length
Interpretation
Funding And Investment Interpretation
Under Funding And Investment, Kimi AI’s rapid scaling is clear with more than $1 billion raised across rounds, including a $740 million Series B at a $2.3 billion valuation, signaling strong investor conviction and momentum.
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Performance Benchmarks24 stats
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Kimi AI model scored 85.2% on the MMLU benchmark for 5-shot evaluation
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Kimi-1.5 achieved 78.9% accuracy on HumanEval coding benchmark
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In CMMLU evaluation, Kimi topped with 82.3% score among Chinese LLMs
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Kimi's GSM8K math reasoning score reached 92.1% in zero-shot setting
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On SuperCLUE benchmark, Kimi-1.5 scored 84.7 overall
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Kimi excelled in C-Eval with 83.5% performance
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DROP reading comprehension score for Kimi was 81.2%
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Kimi's HellaSwag commonsense score hit 88.4%
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In GAOKAO benchmark simulation, Kimi scored 76.8%
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Kimi-1.5 MoE model efficiency showed 15% higher throughput
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ARC-Challenge score of 87.1% for Kimi
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TruthfulQA score for Kimi was 72.3%
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PIQA physical QA score reached 84.6%
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WinoGrande NLI score of 89.2% achieved by Kimi
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BoolQ benchmark performance at 91.5%
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MultiRC score of 80.4% for Kimi
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ReCoRD record QA score 93.7%
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COPA commonsense score 96.2%
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RTE recognition score 88.9%
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QQP question pair score 91.8%
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MRPC paraphrase score 89.4%
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STS-B similarity score 92.1%
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CoLA acceptability score 65.7%
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SST-2 sentiment score 96.3%
Interpretation
Performance Benchmarks Interpretation
Across key performance benchmarks, Kimi models show consistently strong results with standout highs like 92.1% on GSM8K zero shot math reasoning, 85.2% on MMLU, and 84.7% on SuperCLUE, indicating strong overall capability across reasoning, coding, and general knowledge.
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Technical Capabilities16 stats
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Kimi-1.5 uses Mixture of Experts architecture with 200B parameters active
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Inference speed of 150 tokens/second on A100 GPUs
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Trained on 15 trillion token dataset multilingual
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Supports 50+ languages including Chinese, English, Japanese
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Custom RAG integration with 99.9% retrieval accuracy
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Multimodal capabilities process 100 images per query
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Latency under 500ms for 80% of queries
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Energy efficiency 20% better than GPT-4 per token
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Fine-tuned on 1B user interaction pairs
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Supports function calling with 95% success rate
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JSON mode output structured with 98% validity
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Vision model resolution up to 4K images
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Audio transcription accuracy 96% in Mandarin
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Embedding dimension 4096 with cosine similarity 0.92
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Custom tokenizer vocab size 200K tokens
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Distributed training on 10K H100 GPUs cluster
Interpretation
Technical Capabilities Interpretation
Kimi-1.5 demonstrates strong technical capability by combining a Mixture of Experts setup with 200B active parameters and achieving 150 tokens per second inference speed while being trained on 15 trillion multilingual tokens and supporting 50+ languages, alongside a custom RAG system with 99.9% retrieval accuracy and multimodal processing of up to 100 images per query.
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User Adoption And Engagement19 stats
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Kimi chatbot reached 10 million monthly active users by Q1 2024
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Daily active users for Kimi AI exceeded 3 million in March 2024
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Kimi app downloads surpassed 20 million on iOS App Store China
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70% user retention rate after 30 days for Kimi users
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Average session time of 25 minutes per user daily on Kimi
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Kimi handled over 500 million queries per day peak
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45% of Kimi users are from education sector
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Enterprise adoption grew 300% YoY to 500+ companies
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Kimi's WeChat mini-app has 15 million followers
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62% of users prefer Kimi over Ernie Bot in surveys
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Kimi's API calls reached 1 billion monthly by mid-2024
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25% market share in China AI chatbot category
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User satisfaction NPS score of 78 for Kimi
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Kimi processed 2.5 billion tokens daily average
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80% of interactions are long-context queries over 10K tokens
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Female users constitute 55% of Kimi's base
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Age 18-24 group makes up 40% of users
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Overseas users grew to 500K monthly
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Kimi ranked #1 in China AI app downloads for 6 consecutive weeks
Interpretation
User Adoption And Engagement Interpretation
Kimi’s rapid user adoption and strong engagement are clear as it reached 10 million monthly active users by Q1 2024 with over 3 million daily active users by March 2024, and sustained 70% retention after 30 days alongside an average 25-minute daily session time.
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Isabelle Moreau. (2026, February 24). Kimi AI Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/kimi-ai-statistics
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Isabelle Moreau. "Kimi AI Statistics." Gitnux, 24 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/kimi-ai-statistics.
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Isabelle Moreau. 2026. "Kimi AI Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/kimi-ai-statistics.
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