Moonshot AI temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi chatbot service following a surge in demand for the Kimi K3 model. Usage over the past 48 hours nearly reached the company's maximum GPU capacity.
The company will prioritize existing members to protect the user experience while it works to expand capacity. Moonshot AI plans to reopen subscriptions in batches as more computing power becomes available.
Moonshot is restructuring its subscription plans into separate tiers for general use and intensive coding workflows to better allocate resources. This surge follows the release of Kimi K3, an open-weight model that has shown performance competitive with top global AI systems.