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Moonshot AI

Moonshot 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.

HQ

Beijing, China

Founded

2023

Region

Asia

Website

https://www.moonshot.ai

Current snapshot

Lifecycle position

Research

New work, prototypes, or early papers.

Preview

Selective access, early demos, or limited pilots.

Growth

Repeatable distribution, partnerships, or ecosystem pull.

Deployment

Wide production use and durable market presence.

Current position

Founded

2023

Watch cadence

Daily

Last verified

2026-03-31

Focus

Chinese frontier language and reasoning models with strong consumer distribution

Latest move

Pushing Kimi toward broader reasoning and productivity use cases while defending strong domestic consumer adoption.

Category and subcategory context

Open Weight LabsMedia ModelsAgentic Coding ToolsCodingResearch

Competitive context

DeepSeekQwen / Alibaba CloudZhipu AI

Recent models

Kimi k1.5Kimi-latestKimi-VL

Products

KimiKimi API

Open weights

No

API access

Yes

Watch level

Daily

Signals

Long contextReasoningChina

Current financial value

Private valuation reportedly around $4.3B from its latest major funding round.

Recent coverage of Moonshot AI

Recent business and product coverage pulled into the profile so you can see what is happening around the company without leaving the page.

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi WebBridge: AI Agents That Browse the Web Like You

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi WebBridge: AI Agents That Browse the Web Like You Pandaily

Pandaily•May 20

CoreWeave Achieves #1 Ranking for Inference Speed and Price-Performance for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 Model in Independent Benchmark

CoreWeave Achieves #1 Ranking for Inference Speed and Price-Performance for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 Model in Independent Benchmark Business Wire

Business Wire•May 11

Moonshot AI raises $2B, valuation tops $20B in funding surge

Moonshot AI raises $2B, valuation tops $20B in funding surge MSN

MSN•May 8

Moonshot AI Launches New Model With Improved Coding and Agent Capabilities

Moonshot AI Launches New Model With Improved Coding and Agent Capabilities Caixin Global

Caixin Global•Apr 21

Moonshot AI targets US$12 billion valuation as revenue surges for Kimi models

Moonshot AI targets US$12 billion valuation as revenue surges for Kimi models South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post•Feb 18

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, claims most powerful open-weight model with 100-agent coordination

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, claims most powerful open-weight model with 100-agent coordination the-decoder.com

the-decoder.com•Jan 28