Kimi is an AI assistant for Chinese-language knowledge work, search, and file processing. Users can ask questions, upload reference material, or start a web search in chat, and they can hand longer assignments to an Agent that uses tools and produces documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or websites rather than only returning a block of text.
The product combines quick conversations with longer workflows. Search conducts iterative retrieval and presents traceable citations, file support helps users work through PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, and images, and Projects keep related files, instructions, and conversations in a persistent workspace. This structure is especially useful for research, information synthesis, and office writing that should not restart from zero each time. More complex work can be delegated to a general Agent or split across an Agent Swarm, while specialized Kimi surfaces support coding and office tasks. Availability, concurrency, file limits, and membership allowances differ by account and plan. Reports, calculations, and cited claims produced by the system still need human review before they are used as reliable facts.