Kimi is an AI coding assistant from Moonshot AI that’s designed to handle both everyday chat and heavier agentic work like coding, research, and office tasks. Instead of just answering questions, it can build multiplayer games and websites, put together polished slide decks, dig through Excel and PDF files, run deep research tasks, and even juggle multiple jobs at once through its “Agent Swarm” feature.
To use Kimi AI, you just type a request into the chat box or the app and let it work, though it’s especially handy for anyone dealing with long documents or big codebases since it can hold up to a million tokens of context in a single conversation. One thing worth knowing going in is that Kimi AI’s K3 model always runs its reasoning process in the background before answering, so responses on complex tasks can take a bit longer and use more of your quota than a quick chat would.
Kimi’s basic chat, file uploads, and web search are free to use with no cost, with paid plans also available for people who need more credits, coding tools, or access to the swarm feature for running parallel agent tasks.
