How did Moonshot AI Kimi-Researcher do on X?
Moonshot AI posted the Kimi-Researcher launch from @Kimi_Moonshot on Jun 20, 2025. The post has 239,906 views, 1,341 likes, 217 reposts, 59 quotes and 42 replies, an engagement rate of 0.69%. It ranks #1260 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Meet Kimi-Researcher - an autonomous agent that excels at multi-turn search and reasoning. Powered by k 1.5 and trained with end-to-end agentic RL. Achieved 26.9% pass@1 on Humanity's Last Exam, 69% pass@1 on xbench. 🔗 Tech blog：https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher/
- 1.4xthe median launch175K median views
- #1260of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 0.6xits own following393,899 followers
- Views
- 239.9K
- Likes
- 1.3K
- Reposts
- 217
- Quotes
- 59
- Replies
- 42
- Bookmarks
- 600
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, 239.9K views would cost $24K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 4.2x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 0.6 views for every follower of @Kimi_Moonshot.
What launched?
Moonshot AI introduced Kimi-Researcher, an autonomous agent for multi-turn search and reasoning, trained with end-to-end agentic reinforcement learning.
How does it compare with other launches?
Moonshot AI Kimi-Researcher has more views than 56% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 1.4x the median launch's 175K views.
- Moonshot AI Kimi-Researcher239.9K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Moonshot AI Kimi-Researcher | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 239.9K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.69% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 0.6 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 59 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 25.0 | 14.2 |
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 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 | 263K | 91% | #765 |
| Accounts 100K to 1M followers | 909 | 252.6K | 95% | #470 |
| Image launch posts | 620 | 143.1K | 1.7x | #261 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 1.4x | #1260 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 393.9K followers, the post reached 0.6 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 62% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 470 of 909 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 59 quote posts, 2.5 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 "Meet Kimi-Researcher - an autonomous agent that excels at multi-turn search and reasoning. Powered by k 1.5 and trained with end-to-end a…". The post runs 37 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 Friday (UTC). Friday launches have a median of 162.2K 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-Researcher launch from @Kimi_Moonshot on Jun 20, 2025.
- How many views did Moonshot AI Kimi-Researcher get on X?
- 239,906 views. Moonshot AI posted it from @Kimi_Moonshot on Jun 20, 2025, and the post has 1,341 likes, 217 reposts, 59 quotes, 42 replies and 600 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Moonshot AI Kimi-Researcher a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1260 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 56% of them and 1.4x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.69%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 239.9K 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, 239.9K views would cost $24K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 4.2x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/moonshot-ai-kimi-researcher, 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.