🧠 This AI Builds Working Apps From a Single Prompt. My Full Kimi K2 Guideline

So, what's the big deal about Kimi K2?

You've probably heard this insane tool. Kimi K2 is making serious waves in the AI world, with some tests placing it right alongside the performance of giants like GPT-5. It's not just another chatbot. This is a powerful new tool that can create a complete, professional presentation from a single sentence, or build a complex, interactive web application from a single prompt.

In this lesson, we'll cover what Kimi K2 is, how to get started, and a deep dive into its two most powerful features: Kimi K2 Slides and Kimi K2 Thinking.

I. What’s Kimi K2?

Kimi K2 is Moonshot AI’s flagship Mixture-of-Experts model: a trillion-parameter system that selectively activates about 32B “experts” per task. In plain terms, it feels both big and quick: wide knowledge when you need it, and fast, targeted reasoning when you don’t.

That balance makes the tool useful for people who ship work:

• Founders polishing a pitch,

• Marketers and analysts turning PDFs into living reports,

• Teachers building interactive lessons,

• Developers who want working prototypes (maps, simulators, UI builders) from a single brief.

Kimi K2 performs at the very top tier of public leaderboards, frequently sitting at the #3 spot among all latest models, even above Grok-4, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro. K2 is especially good at tool use, coding, and turning instructions into complete, usable outputs.

II. Getting Started with Kimi K2

Go to kimi.com, create an account, and log in. New users get free credits to try the core features.

Kimi K2 offers flexible pricing options depending on how deeply you plan to use it. The Free version gives you enough credits to explore its chat and Slides features comfortably. If you need more capacity for your work, you can upgrade your plan according to the features you want to unlock.

Dashboard
You’ll see a familiar chat interface plus tools like Kimi Slides and the Thinking toggle. You can also upload files (PDF, Docs, spreadsheets) for analysis.

Key features you’ll use first:

• Kimi K2 Slides: turn one prompt into a complete, styled presentation.

• Kimi K2 Thinking: a “reason + build” mode that can code interactive pages, visualize data, and compile research with minimal hand-holding.

Now let’s explore each of these.

III. Creating Your AI-Generated Presentation with Kimi K2 Slides

Step 1: Open Slides
From the homepage, choose Kimi Slides. It runs on the K2 model optimized for deck creation.

Step 2: Describe your deck

Inside Kimi Slides, you’ll find a simple text box where you describe the presentation you want to create. Just type your idea clearly, for example:

Kimi’s AI agent instantly understands your request and builds a full presentation outline: titles, sections, and key talking points in just a few seconds.

You can then pick between two generation modes:

• Preset Mode: Gives you a clean, structured layout with clear organization and ready-to-use templates.

• Adaptive Mode: Produces a more creative, visually engaging design, great for projects that need personality and visual flair.

For businesses like a café or restaurant, I recommend using Adaptive Mode for a more appealing final look.

Step 3: Choose a template and tweak
Pick from minimalist to colorful themes. You can edit text, swap images/icons, adjust colors and layouts, and add simple tables.

Step 4: Generate and review
Click Generate Slides. For a 14–18-slide deck, expect a few minutes. Review the preview, edit any slide, or add new ones.

⚠ One small note:

The speed of Kimi K2 Slides can sometimes feel a bit slow, and at peak times, you might see messages saying the system is busy (likely because of heavy user traffic).

This can be a minor inconvenience, especially on the free plan. If you want a smoother, faster experience with fewer interruptions, it’s definitely worth considering an upgrade to a paid plan.

Step 5: Export
Download as PPTX (or images). For best results, embed fonts and keep transitions enabled if you want light animations.

Kimi Slides vs. Gamma AI: Which AI Presentation Tool is Best for YOU?

Kimi Slides and Gamma AI both promise to reinvent how we create presentations, but they do it in completely different ways.

Gamma AI is the artist:

→ It’s built to impress visually, generating beautifully designed, interactive decks in one go. You type a short prompt, and within seconds, Gamma gives you a polished, web-ready presentation with animations, videos, and live collaboration features. It’s ideal for creative, marketing, or investor-pitch decks, where design and interactivity matter most.

Kimi Slides, on the other hand, is the analyst.

→ It focuses on clarity, structure, and intelligence, not just aesthetics. Instead of jumping straight to visuals, Kimi first builds a detailed text outline: titles, sections, and key ideas; so you can refine the story before any slide design begins. It can handle up to 50 documents at once, turning complex research or long reports into a clear, well-structured presentation. The output is a clean, fully editable PowerPoint file, perfect for professional or data-heavy work where precision and exportability matter.

IV. Create Interactive Apps & Reports with Kimi K2 Thinking

This is where Kimi K2 really flexes its muscles. By enabling the Thinking toggle in the chat, you're not just asking for answers; you're asking K2 to build, analyze, and create.

1. One-prompt interactive apps

You're not just getting code snippets. You can ask K2 to build a complete, working application from a single prompt.

For example, you could prompt it to create a drag-and-drop UI builder similar to Wix. K2 will generate the complete HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a functional tool, including the UI, the drag-and-drop logic, and even alignment guides like snap-to-grid.

The result is a single block of code. You simply copy it, paste it into a blank text file, save it as index.html, and open it in your browser. It just works.

Prompt (a drag-and-drop UI builder):

Develop a drag-and-drop UI builder (panels, buttons, forms) like Wix that allows the user to build and customize a webpage. Include snap-to-grid and alignment guides in one HTML file.

Prompt (3D map of New York City):

Create a 3D visualization of New York City's iconic boroughs and neighborhoods; sidebar lists Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Harlem, Greenwich Village, DUMBO, etc.; highlight building extrusions and add a day/night toggle.

2. In-Depth Research That Becomes a Finished Product

This is an incredibly useful feature for any business or research task. Instead of just getting a simple text summary, K2 builds a complete, shareable deliverable for you.

For example, you can upload multiple dense documents at once, say, 2 separate PDF financial reports from companies like Apple and Samsung. Then, you can ask K2 for a comprehensive financial analysis.

Prompt:

Make a comprehensive financial analysis report on the attached data. Include interactive charts and/or graphs. Make it visually appealing. Put everything in a standalone HTML file.

What you get back isn't a wall of text. It's a single, interactive HTML report, complete with:

• Tabs to easily switch between each company's data.

• Key financial highlights and insights, clearly laid out.

• Interactive, comparative charts that K2 builds from the data.

It's not just research; it's a finished, polished report you can share with your team.

3. Build Your Own Digital Band

This is one of the most surprising things about this tool: it can make you feel like an artist, even if you have zero technical knowledge. You can now build your own interactive music sequencer from scratch.

With just one prompt, you're suddenly in control of your own digital band. All you have to do is ask for it. Try a prompt like this:

Create an interactive music sequencer and synth, including a step grid, multiple tracks, effects like reverb and delay, and tempo control. Put everything in a single HTML file.

The AI will generate a single, standalone file. You just save it, open it in your browser, and you can start making beats immediately.

IV. Conclusion

As you can see, Kimi K2 is a serious and powerful tool. It's a practical assistant for everyday work (like Kimi K2 Slides) and a powerhouse engine for complex development and research (with Kimi K2 Thinking). It's pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible, especially from an open-source model.