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Kimi vs. StableLM

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute Kimi StableLM
Developer Moonshot AI Stability AI
Current generation Kimi K3 –
Initial release 2023-10-09 2023-04-19
Instruct tuned Yes No
Coding Yes No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License Kimi K3 License CC BY-SA 4.0
Model sizes 2.8T (104B active) 3B, 7B
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Kimi

Kimi is Moonshot AI's open-weight family for long-context reasoning, coding, multimodal agents, and research. Kimi K3 is the current generation.

Moonshot AI launched Kimi in 2023 with an early focus on long-context document understanding. Kimi K3, released in July 2026, is a 2.8T-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 104B active parameters. It combines native vision, a one-million-token context window, long-horizon coding, knowledge work, reasoning, and agent orchestration. The full model weights are available under the Kimi K3 License.

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StableLM

The StableLM series of language models is Stability AI's entry into the LLM space. Trained on The Pile, the initial release included 3B and 7B parameter models with larger models on the way.

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