# GitHub Copilot integrates Moonshot Kimi K2.7 Code, first open-weight model in picker

> GitHub Copilot has added Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code to its model picker, and the notable part is not just another option in a dropdown. It is the first open-weight model Copilot has offered, meaning the full weights are publicly downloadable, sitting alongside the usual closed choices from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Kimi K2.7 is a serious model on paper: a trillion total parameters with 32 billion activated per token in a mixture-of-experts design, a 256K context window using MLA architecture, and a 400 million parameter vision encoder bundled in. It rolled out first to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users, then reached Business and Enterprise plans on July 7, hosted on Microsoft Azure and billed at provider list pricing. The bigger signal is what it says about open models and about China's labs. An open-weight model from a Chinese company being good enough, and cheap enough, to earn a slot in Microsoft's flagship developer tool would have been hard to imagine a year ago. Developers now get to test a downloadable model against the closed frontier inside the same editor, which is exactly the kind of pressure that keeps the closed labs honest on price.

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## Wortins' read

GitHub Copilot has added Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code to its model picker, and the notable part is not just another option in a dropdown. It is the first open-weight model Copilot has offered, meaning the full weights are publicly downloadable, sitting alongside the usual closed choices from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Kimi K2.7 is a serious model on paper: a trillion total parameters with 32 billion activated per token in a mixture-of-experts design, a 256K context window using MLA architecture, and a 400 million parameter vision encoder bundled in. It rolled out first to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users, then reached Business and Enterprise plans on July 7, hosted on Microsoft Azure and billed at provider list pricing. The bigger signal is what it says about open models and about China's labs. An open-weight model from a Chinese company being good enough, and cheap enough, to earn a slot in Microsoft's flagship developer tool would have been hard to imagine a year ago. Developers now get to test a downloadable model against the closed frontier inside the same editor, which is exactly the kind of pressure that keeps the closed labs honest on price.

## Source

[Read the full story at GitHub](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-kimi-k2-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot/)

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