Moonshot resets subscriber quotas after Kimi K3.1 Pro launch issues


FILE PHOTO: Moonshot AI logo is seen in this illustration taken, September 5, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo

BEIJING, Oct ⁠26 (Reuters) - Chinese artificial intelligence startup ⁠Moonshot AI apologised on Monday ‌for rate limiting and unnecessary quota consumption after its Kimi K3.1 Pro launch.

Here are ​some details:

• Beijing-based Moonshot ⁠said on itsKimi ⁠X account that it was offering ⁠to reset ‌the monthly quota of all subscribers by ⁠25%, which it said equals one week's ​usage

• ‌Subscribers with usage below 25% ⁠reset to ​zero

• Moonshot said it also adjusted parameters to reduce unnecessary subagent ⁠calls and output length, ​referring to the delegation of tasks among AI agents and the total ⁠number of tokens generated in response to a prompt

• Moonshot previously had issues with computing capacity after ​K3 was launched

• ⁠Chinese AI labs are suffering from ​computing shortages following US ‌chip export controls

(Reporting ​by Liz Lee and Laurie Chen; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus)

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