Kimi K3.1 (k3d1-agent) surfaces on Moonshot's frontend
Moonshot's unreleased flagship Kimi K3.1 appeared in the company's site frontend as 'k3d1-agent' alongside a new bot module; leaked configs point to Low/High/Max reasoning tiers, up to 1M-token context, native agent mode, and Swarm multi-agent support.
Why it matters
Fresh evidence that Moonshot's K3 successor is imminent: the 2.8T-parameter K3, July's largest open model, gets a follow-up aimed squarely at agentic, multi-agent workloads.
What you could build with it
A startup building an autonomous coding assistant could plan its orchestration around K3.1's reported three-tier reasoning and Swarm multi-agent mode: route cheap triage work to Low, escalate deep debugging to Max, and fan parallel subtasks out to a swarm of agents, with a cost dial per task instead of a single fixed price.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge: K3.1 is unannounced and all evidence comes from frontend/API config leaks; no API access, weights, pricing, or K3.1 benchmarks exist yet.
Built with Kimi K3.1
- Kimi K3.1十月或压轴登场：三档推理强度、百万超长上下文，Agent与Swarm全塞进配置article · Chinese-language deep dive on the leaked K3.1 config flags: Low/High/Max reasoning effort, 1M-token Extra Long context, native agent mode, and Swarm multi-agent collaboration.
- Kimi K3.1 identifier reportedly surfaces in Moonshot API registryarticle · TechNode's Sep 29 report on developers spotting the kimi-k3-1 identifier in Moonshot's API registry, with an official preview indicating up to 1M tokens of context.
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