Claim: The Kimi K2 Modified MIT License states that its only modification…

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published ↓Kimi K2 Modified MIT License

The Kimi K2 Modified MIT License states that its only modification requires commercial products or services with more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars in monthly revenue, to display “Kimi K2” prominently on their user interface.

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Date: 2025-07-11 · publication

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Kimi-K2 LICENSE (Modified MIT License)

MoonshotAI (GitHub) · 2025-07-11

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The licence’s final paragraph names its only modification: commercial products or services above 100 million monthly active users or 20 million US dollars monthly revenue must prominently display “Kimi K2” on their user interface.

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-27

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Authors: Moonshot AI
Version: Dated document, retrieved on 2026-10-27 (SHA-256 b280da6f496d75e0c5beb79b03520d190fce67dfe12f75cf3aadad8670839d93) directly from the publisher. Version: d778e270ff3551ef3e42a085dd474760501a95b7. LICENSE file at the initial commit of 11 July 2025; the file history shows no later change in the inspected clone.
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Accessed: 2026-10-27
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Moonshot AI, “Kimi-K2 LICENSE (Modified MIT License)”, 2025-07-11.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Chinese frontier-AI institutions, second collection (research/china-labs-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Our only modification part is that” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-27 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review.

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