How did Moonshot AI Kimi K3 do on X?
Moonshot AI posted the Kimi K3 launch from @Kimi_Moonshot on Jul 16, 2026. The post has 25,591,296 views, 56,671 likes, 7,498 reposts, 3,465 quotes and 1,724 replies, an engagement rate of 0.27%. It ranks #31 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence 🔹 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal 🔹 Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts 🔹 Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost 🔹 Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows Kimi K3 is now live on on http://Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API. Open Weights by July 27, 2026. 🔗 API: http://platform.kimi.ai 🔗 Tech blog: http://kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
- 146xthe median launch175K median views
- #31of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 65xits own following393,898 followers
- Views
- 25.6M
- Likes
- 56.7K
- Reposts
- 7.5K
- Quotes
- 3.5K
- Replies
- 1.7K
- Bookmarks
- 22.6K
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, 25.6M views would cost $2.6M. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $640K.
The post reached about 65 views for every follower of @Kimi_Moonshot.
What launched?
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, an open model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context, live on Kimi.com and Kimi Code.
How does it compare with other launches?
Moonshot AI Kimi K3 has more views than 99% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 146x the median launch's 175K views.
- Moonshot AI Kimi K325.6M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Moonshot AI Kimi K3 | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 25.6M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.27% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 65 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 3.5K | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 8.8 | 14.2 |
Other Moonshot AI launches we track: 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), Moonshot AI Kimi Work (562.4K views). All 17 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 | 1,462 | 264.5K | 97x | #23 |
| Accounts 100K to 1M followers | 909 | 252.6K | 101x | #10 |
| Image launch posts | 620 | 143.1K | 179x | #4 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 146x | #31 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 393.9K followers, the post reached 65 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 100K to 1M followers reach a median of 1.0 times their following, so this one went about 66 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 10 of 909 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 3,465 quote posts, 1.4 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer 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 "Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence". The post runs 75 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 162.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 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 K3 launch from @Kimi_Moonshot on Jul 16, 2026.
- How many views did Moonshot AI Kimi K3 get on X?
- 25,591,296 views. Moonshot AI posted it from @Kimi_Moonshot on Jul 16, 2026, and the post has 56,671 likes, 7,498 reposts, 3,465 quotes, 1,724 replies and 22,554 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Moonshot AI Kimi K3 a big launch on X?
- It ranks #31 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 99% of them and 146x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.27%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 25.6M 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, 25.6M views would cost $2.6M. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $640K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/moonshot-ai-kimi-k3, 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.