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Kimi-Researcher

Moonshot AI · 20 June 2025

Deep-research agent trained end-to-end with agentic RL, averaging 23 reasoning steps and 200+ URLs per task; 26.9% on Humanity's Last Exam.

Moonshot trained the whole search-browse-code loop with outcome-reward RL rather than hand-built workflows. HLE rose from 8.6% to 26.9% Pass@1 during training; precursor to the K2 Thinking agent design.

Date
Friday, 20 June 2025
Lab
Moonshot AI
Kind
product
Access
app only

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
Humanity's Last Exam Pass@126.9%
Pass@4 40.17%; tested 2025-06-17; o3-mini judge
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xbench-DeepSearch Pass@169%
avg of 4 runs
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Benchmarks are company-run on live web tools, so results can fluctuate.

Sources

  1. moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/

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