model release
Kimi K2.8 Preview rolls out
Moonshot AI rolled out Kimi K2.8 Preview in Kimi Code with more efficient reasoning, adjustable thinking effort, and a one-million-token context window.
Kimi Code · Read source ↗Added to map Sep 11, 2026
Frontier Labs · Private company · Deployment
Moonshot AI
✓ VerifiedMoonshot AI is one of the highest-visibility Chinese frontier model companies, using the Kimi product line to compete on consumer reach, long context, and increasingly broader reasoning workflows.
Beijing, ChinaFounded 2023API accessDaily review target
Editorial intelligence brief
Editorial focus
Rolled out Kimi K2.8 Preview in Kimi Code on September 11, 2026, improving coding and agent performance with more efficient thinking, adjustable effort levels, and a one-million-token context window.
Focus: Chinese frontier language and reasoning models with strong consumer distribution
Latest funding
About $2B
Funding round · source-backed
Tracked funding
$2B
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
$20B
Reported valuation
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Deployment lifecycle position
Editorially verified updates
What changed
model release
Kimi K3 launches
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, its next-generation agentic model for coding and tool use.
Kimi · Read source ↗Added to map Jul 16, 2026
External coverage of Moonshot AI
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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.
Bloomberg.com · Reporting
Oct 14, 2026
Tom's Hardware · Reporting
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch · Reporting
Sep 11, 2026
Source-backed financial history
Funding and financial history
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
1
Sum of recorded funding
$2B
Coverage
partial
Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.
One funding announcement recorded. More dated rounds are needed to show funding over time.
#1
Funding round · About $2B
Running tracked total: $2B
#1
Funding round · About $2B
Running tracked total: $2B
Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.
Funding round · About $2B
Approximately $2B funding round.
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
Kimi K3Kimi K2.8 PreviewKimi K2.6
Products
KimiKimi CodeKimi API
Open weights
Yes
API access
Yes
Review target
Daily
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
Chinese frontier language and reasoning models with strong consumer distribution
Signals
Long contextReasoningChina
Taxonomy
Open Weight LabsMedia ModelsAgentic Coding ToolsCodingResearch
Competitive context
DeepSeekQwen / Alibaba CloudZhipu AI
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Moonshot AI sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
3 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Managed API + self-hostable weights
03
Market layer
Frontier Labs
Public product surface
KimiKimi CodeKimi API
Stack signals
CodingResearchLong contextReasoningChina
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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