Amazon Launches Kiro: AI-Powered Coding Tool for Developers

Amazon has released a preview of Kiro, a program that uses AI to help developers write code. Kiro is designed to simplify the process of "vibe coding," which involves directing computers to create software with minimal human direction. The program can create diagrams to show data flow and task lists, and currently supports only English. Free and premium tiers will be available after the preview ends.

Beijing-based Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model aimed at reclaiming market leadership in China’s competitive AI landscape. The release marks a strategic move to challenge rivals like DeepSeek and compete globally with U.S. firms. Kimi K2 is a massive Mixture-of-Experts model designed for "agentic intelligence," allowing it to autonomously execute complex tasks and use digital tools.

The July 11 release comes after Moonshot AI's user base for its Kimi application saw its ranking slip from third to seventh in China between August 2024 and June 2025. This decline followed the disruptive release of low-cost models by rival DeepSeek, intensifying the domestic AI price and performance war. By open-sourcing its flagship model, Moonshot is adopting a strategy increasingly favored by Chinese tech firms, aiming to build a broad developer community and expand global influence.

Kimi K2 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 1 trillion parameters, though only 32 billion are activated for any given token. This architecture is designed for computational efficiency at massive scale. The model's performance was evaluated against other leading open-source and proprietary models across a range of tasks, indicating competitive performance in coding, tool use, and complex reasoning. For instance, on the LiveCodeBench v6 coding benchmark, Kimi K2 achieved a score of 53.7, compared to 47.4 for Claude Opus 4 and 44.7 for GPT-4.1 [1].

Moonshot AI's strategic release of Kimi K2 is part of a broader trend in the AI industry. The value of agentic intelligence, which involves AI understanding a goal, creating a plan, and using tools to execute complex tasks, is being validated by companies. For example, investment bank Goldman Sachs is piloting autonomous AI coder Devin, aiming to build a "hybrid workforce" where human engineers supervise thousands of AI agents [1].

The global race for agentic intelligence is heating up, with companies like Amazon also entering the fray. Amazon has released a preview of Kiro, a program that uses AI to help developers write code. Kiro is designed to simplify the process of "vibe coding," which involves directing computers to create software with minimal human direction. The program can create diagrams to show data flow and task lists, and currently supports only English. Free and premium tiers will be available after the preview ends.

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[1] https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/11/china-based-moonshot-ai-releases-1-trillion-parameter-kimi-k2-model-in-an-open-source-bid-to-dominate-agentic-ai-xcxwbn/