How did Moonshot AI Kimi-Audio do on X?
Moonshot AI posted the Kimi-Audio launch from @Kimi_Moonshot on Apr 25, 2025. The post has 123,024 views, 1,100 likes, 216 reposts, 40 quotes and 39 replies, an engagement rate of 1.13%. It ranks #1868 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks.
Announcing 🎙️ Kimi-Audio! Our new open-source audio foundation model advances capabilities in audio understanding, generation, and conversation. Key Features & Achievements: ✅ Universal audio foundation model handles diverse tasks like speech recognition, audio understanding, audio-to-text chat, speech-to-speech conversation. ✅ Large-scale pre-training on >13 Million hours of diverse audio data (speech, music, sounds). ✅ Unique 12.5Hz tokenizer & hybrid architecture for rich perception and efficient generation. ✅ SOTA on 10+ audio benchmarks: excels in Speech Recognition (LibriSpeech 1.28/2.42 WER), Audio Understanding (MMAU, VocalSound), and Conversation (VoiceBench). We're also releasing our comprehensive evaluation toolkit to foster fair benchmarking! 🛠️ 📄Dive into the details in our Technical Report: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Audio/blob/master/assets/kimia_report.pdf 🌟Explore the Code, Models & Eval Toolkit on GitHub: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Audio HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct Excited to see the innovative audio applications the community will build!
- 1.0xthe median launch119.4K median views
- #1868of the launches we trackout of 3,785
- 0.3xits own following393,947 followers
- Views
- 123K
- Likes
- 1.1K
- Reposts
- 216
- Quotes
- 40
- Replies
- 39
- Bookmarks
- 546
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 123K views would cost $12K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 8.1x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 0.3 views for every follower of @Kimi_Moonshot.
What launched?
Moonshot AI announced Kimi-Audio, an open-source audio foundation model for audio understanding, generation and conversation.
How does it compare with other launches?
Moonshot AI Kimi-Audio has more views than 51% of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks: 1.0x the median launch's 119.4K views.
- Moonshot AI Kimi-Audio123K
- Median tracked launch119.4K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Moonshot AI Kimi-Audio | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 123K | 119.4K |
| Engagement rate | 1.13% | 0.58% |
| Views per follower | 0.3 | 1.5 |
| Quote posts | 40 | 20 |
| Saves per 10K views | 44.4 | 15.0 |
Other Moonshot AI launches we track: Moonshot AI Kimi K3 (25.6M views), Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 (7.6M views), Moonshot AI Kimi K3.1 Pro (4.3M views), Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 API (771.2K views), Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 Agent Swarm (620.5K views), Moonshot AI Kimi Agentic Slides (575.6K views). All 27 Moonshot AI launches, or every AI launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,818 | 194.6K | 63% | #1066 |
| Accounts 100K to 1M followers | 1,516 | 113.9K | 1.1x | #735 |
| Image launch posts | 897 | 84.9K | 1.4x | #391 |
| Every launch | 3,785 | 119.4K | 1.0x | #1868 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 393.9K followers, the post reached 0.3 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 100K to 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 60% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 735 of 1516 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 40 quote posts, 3.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Announcing 🎙️ Kimi-Audio! Our new open-source audio foundation model advances capabilities in audio understanding, generation, and conve…". The post runs 126 words, against a median of 38 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 84.9K views, against 130.9K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 109.6K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Friday (UTC). Friday launches have a median of 101.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 137.9K.
Every comparison is against the 3,785 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Moonshot AI?
- In its own words on X: "Built by Moonshot AI to empower everyone to be superhuman. PR: globalpr@moonshot.ai" Moonshot AI posted the Kimi-Audio launch from @Kimi_Moonshot on Apr 25, 2025.
- How many views did Moonshot AI Kimi-Audio get on X?
- 123,024 views. Moonshot AI posted it from @Kimi_Moonshot on Apr 25, 2025, and the post has 1,100 likes, 216 reposts, 40 quotes, 39 replies and 546 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Moonshot AI Kimi-Audio a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1868 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 51% of them and 1.0x the median launch's 119.4K views. Its engagement rate is 1.13%, against a median of 0.58%.
- What would 123K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 123K views would cost $12K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 8.1x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/moonshot-ai-kimi-audio, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.