# Kimi K2.7 Code: First Open-Weight Model Available in GitHub Copilot

> GitHub has made Kimi K2.7 Code the first open-weight model available in Copilot's model picker, a small but telling shift. The model comes from Beijing-based Moonshot AI and is a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts system that activates only about 32 billion parameters per token, giving big-model capability at a fraction of the running cost. It went generally available on Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max on July 1, 2026, expanding to Business and Enterprise within the week and hosted on Microsoft Azure. The speed is striking: Moonshot published the weights on Hugging Face on June 12, and just 19 days later GitHub shipped it into production. For developers, it means a genuinely cheaper option sitting alongside the proprietary models in the same dropdown. More broadly, it marks open-weight models, and Chinese ones at that, moving from curiosity to default choice inside the tools millions of engineers use every day, putting real price pressure on the closed frontier labs.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: GitHub Changelog · Published Tuesday, July 14, 2026_

## Wortins' read

GitHub has made Kimi K2.7 Code the first open-weight model available in Copilot's model picker, a small but telling shift. The model comes from Beijing-based Moonshot AI and is a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts system that activates only about 32 billion parameters per token, giving big-model capability at a fraction of the running cost. It went generally available on Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max on July 1, 2026, expanding to Business and Enterprise within the week and hosted on Microsoft Azure. The speed is striking: Moonshot published the weights on Hugging Face on June 12, and just 19 days later GitHub shipped it into production. For developers, it means a genuinely cheaper option sitting alongside the proprietary models in the same dropdown. More broadly, it marks open-weight models, and Chinese ones at that, moving from curiosity to default choice inside the tools millions of engineers use every day, putting real price pressure on the closed frontier labs.

## Source

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

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