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Moonshot AI

Startup lab · founded 2023 · Beijing, China

Website

The Kimi models: long context early, then the open-weight Kimi K2 trained with the Muon optimizer.

Landmark work

Leaders

On Leaders

Models

On Models

Funding and compute

On Funding
FundingFeb 20, 2024

Undisclosed

$1B, at a $2.5B valuation
About, sources and history
Type
Startup lab, ai research
Sources
wikidata.org Q130270266
Registry
Moonshot AI on Companies

History

Funding roundsSep 28, 2026

Raised $2B (Series D) at a $20B valuation, May 2026.

LeadersSep 28, 2026

Now lists Wu Yuxin (Co-founder) and Zhou Xinyu (Co-founder).