# Moonshot AI — Kimi Vendor Verifier

- Company: Moonshot AI (moonshot.ai)
- Announced: 2026-01-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Kimi
- Models affected: Kimi K2.6, K2 Thinking
- Source: https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4627-kimi-vendor-verifier

Moonshot AI is open-sourcing the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV), a project that provides benchmarks and tools to verify the accuracy of inference implementations for open-source models, addressing issues of benchmark anomalies and quality control in the open-source ecosystem.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier:

> Alongside the release of the Kimi K2.6 model, we are open-sourcing the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV) project, designed to help users of open-source models verify the accuracy of their inference implementations.

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