The Kimi Token Cup was Kimi's game for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. You picked a team, and when it won, you shared in a prize pool of AI tokens. Alongside it, Kimi used a swarm of about 300 AI agents to predict the tournament. The campaign has now ended. This page explains how it worked, what the predictions involved, and what to do if you took part.
An illustration of the idea: back a team, share the pool when it wins.
A free World Cup game in Kimi: back a team, share tokens when it wins.
A pool of AI tokens. Reports give 1 billion or 1 trillion, depending on the version.
It is over. Check your Kimi account for anything you won.
Players signed in to their Kimi account on the website or app.
Each player chose a team to back. Some reports also mention predicting match winners and the champion.
Each time your team won, you could share in the token prize pool.
One report adds a twist: each win by Germany opened an extra bonus pool for all players. That matched Kimi's prediction that Germany was underrated.
From BigGo Finance (10 June 2026) and Asia News Network (17 June 2026). The full rules on Kimi's own page were not available to us.
| Detail | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Kimi Token Cup | Kimi's campaign page title |
| Started | 9 June 2026, 8:00 am | BigGo Finance. Time zone not given |
| Tournament | 2026 FIFA World Cup, 11 June to 19 July | Asia News Network |
| Prize pool | 1 billion tokens on the international page; 1 trillion in reports from China | Kimi's page title; BigGo, Asia News Network |
| Entry | Free, for signed-in Kimi users | BigGo Finance |
| Status | Ended | The tournament finished on 19 July |
On a small screen, swipe the table sideways to see every column.
The two prize figures may describe separate versions of the campaign for different regions. We could not confirm this, or how the pool was split between winners.
A small piece of text an AI model reads or writes, roughly 3 to 4 characters of English. AI use is measured in tokens.
A token prize is AI usage credit, not cash. Its value depends on what Kimi let winners use it for.
A pool of a billion tokens sounds huge, but it was shared among many players. Individual shares were likely far smaller.
For scale, on Kimi's API one million output tokens from Kimi K2.6 cost $4.00. More: how tokens work · API pricing
The campaign was also a showcase for Kimi's agent swarm, which Kimi calls an Agent Cluster. Reports describe a method designed to produce probabilities, not certainties.
Each agent studied one angle: rankings, expected goals, tactics, injuries, betting odds, or random events like red cards and VAR decisions.
Agents gave a conclusion, evidence, a confidence level and a counter-argument. An "arbitration" agent settled disagreements.
Kimi simulated the tournament 100,000 times to estimate each team's chance of winning.
Kimi published a report of more than 200 pages analysing teams and matches before kick-off.
From 36Kr Europe and BigGo Finance, both 10 June 2026. We have not checked how Kimi's predictions performed. Try the swarm yourself: Agent Swarm · Agent Swarm in K2.6
Why do favourites lose so often? Set a team's chance of winning the tournament and run 1,000 simulated World Cups, the same basic idea Kimi used at a much larger scale.
Press the button to run the simulation.
Each square is one simulated tournament; green means the team won. A teaching tool using random numbers in your browser, not Kimi's model and not a prediction.
Asia News Network noted that before Brazil vs Morocco, major AI models predicted a Brazil win; the match ended 1-1. Other Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba's Qwen, ran World Cup prediction features at the same time.
Sign in at kimi.com and look at your balance, benefits and messages.
Look for announcements about how prizes were credited and any expiry dates.
Use Help and Feedback in the app if something seems missing.
We could not find Kimi's own description of how prizes were paid or when they expire. More: login help · Is Kimi AI free?
Messages or sites asking you to sign in somewhere other than kimi.com to collect a prize.
Any request to pay to receive prize tokens. Real prizes do not need a payment.
Kimi's prizes were AI usage tokens, not cryptocurrency. Anyone selling "Kimi tokens" as an investment is not Kimi.
If in doubt, go to kimi.com yourself. More: the official Kimi website.