ManifoldGeopoliticsUpdated 13m ago

Kimi K4 released in 2026?

As of Sep 30, 2026, 9:42 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 13.6% (down from 14.9% 24 hours earlier). It had Ṁ126.4 traded in the past 24 hours and Ṁ1K of order-book liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
13.6%
−1.3 percentage points
over 24 hours14.9% → 13.6%
91 days until the event deadline
Deadline: December 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

A repricing with partial backing — read the new probability with some caution.

The pricing has partial support: moderate trading volume.

How credible was the move?

Three separate questions — a move can be genuine while the latest price is still settling. Methodology →

Move validity

Is the move backed by real trading and depth?

Moderate

The pricing has partial support: moderate trading volume.

Consensus stability

Has the market settled at the new probability?

Stable

The probability has held near its current level over the past several hours.

Contract clarity

Will the rules resolve without ambiguity?

High

The resolution rules are relatively specific, with a named source and a defined deadline.

Recent trade activity$3.9K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

Resolution criteria This market will resolve to YES if Moonshot AI officially releases or makes publicly available the "Kimi K4" large language model (or any model explicitly designated under the "Kimi K4" naming convention, such as Kimi K4 Max, Kimi K4 Swarm, or Kimi K4 Base) on or before December 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM UTC. Otherwise, this market will resolve to NO.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

Resolution criteria This market will resolve to YES if Moonshot AI officially releases or makes publicly available the "Kimi K4" large language model (or any model explicitly designated under the "Kimi K4" naming convention, such as Kimi K4 Max, Kimi K4 Swarm, or Kimi K4 Base) on or before December 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM UTC. Otherwise, this market will resolve to NO. To qualify for a YES resolution, the model must be made available through at least one of the following: Released open-weights to the public (e.g., via Hugging Face or the Moonshot AI GitHub) Integrated as an active model variant in the Kimi chat interface/app (kimi.com) Made accessible to developers via the official Kimi API platform The primary source of truth will be announcements published on the official [Moonshot AI Website](https://www.moonshot.cn or https://www.kimi.com) or their verified official social/developer channels. Minor version updates (e.g., Kimi K3.5) will not trigger a YES resolution unless explicitly branded as part of the Kimi K4 family. Background Moonshot AI is a prominent Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup. Following the launch of the open-weights Kimi K2 in July 2025, Moonshot AI released its flagship successor, Kimi K3, on July 16, 2026. Kimi K3 features approximately 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and native visual and agentic capabilities. This market tracks whether the rapid pace of development in the Chinese AI ecosystem will lead Moonshot AI to deploy its next-generation architecture, Kimi K4, before the end of 2026. This description was generated by AI. Review and verify everything here yourself. You can edit, replace, or delete any part of this description, including the resolution criteria. You do not need to trust the AI output. [link preview]

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Sep 30, 9:55 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±17 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

low classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
19Low
Where the price path tends to go next1089 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~41h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Stale price.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Market data

24h volume

Ṁ126.4

Liquidity

Ṁ1K

Total volume

Ṁ4.8K

Category
Geopolitics
Venue
Manifold
Open interest
—
Current probability
13.6%
7-day range
13.6% – 14.9%
Resolves
Dec 31, 2026
Change (pts)1H0.06H0.024H-1.37D-1.3

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