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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.

Known for

Leaders

On Leaders
Person
Yang ZhilinChief Executive Officeren.wikipedia.org

Models

On Models
ModelStanding
Kimi K3Flagship#18 on the Models podium
Moonshotai Kimi K2#49 on the Models podium
Kimi K2.5#54 on the Models podium

Funding and compute

On Funding
DateDeal
Jul 29, 2026Growth$3.5B, at a $35B valuationfinance.yahoo.com
About, sources and history
Type
Startup lab, ai research
Sources
wikidata.org Q130270266
Registry
Moonshot AI on Companies

History

  • 2026-09-24 Added to Labs

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