{
  "id": "kimi-k2-instruct",
  "name": "Kimi K2 Instruct",
  "developer": "Moonshot AI",
  "exact_model_id": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
  "evidence_level": "source-verified",
  "access": {
    "label": "Direct download",
    "gated": false
  },
  "license": {
    "name": "Modified MIT",
    "commercial_use": "Commercial use depends on the exact modified-MIT terms; do not treat it as identical to standard MIT.",
    "eu_note": "No explicit EU territorial restriction identified in the reviewed model page; verify the full modified license."
  },
  "architecture": {
    "parameters": "1T total / 32B active",
    "type": "Mixture-of-Experts",
    "context": "128K",
    "modalities": "Text → text"
  },
  "runtimes": [
    "Transformers",
    "provider runtimes / custom code"
  ],
  "hardware_note": "Huge total checkpoint size despite 32B active parameters per token; storage and distributed serving remain substantial.",
  "primary_source": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct",
  "third_party_runtime_evidence": [],
  "reference_page": "https://openweightmodels.eu/model-kimi-k2-instruct.html",
  "change_history": "https://openweightmodels.eu/change-kimi-k2-instruct.json"
}