Moonshot AI
Seeking the optimal conversion from energy to intelligence
About Moonshot AI
Founded in early 2023, Moonshot AI is one of China’s fastest-growing frontier AI companies, bringing together researchers behind influential technologies such as Transformer-XL, RoPE, Group Normalization, ShuffleNet, MuonClip and Mooncake.
Its flagship Kimi ecosystem serves tens of millions of professional users every month, offering advanced reasoning, coding, research, multimodal AI and autonomous agent capabilities for both individuals and enterprises. The company also operates the Kimi API and enterprise platform, enabling developers and businesses to integrate its foundation models into production applications.
Moonshot AI has become a major contributor to the global open-source AI ecosystem through projects including Kimi K2, Kimi K2.5, Kimi-VL, Kimi-Audio, Kimi Code, Mooncake and Kimi Linear. In July 2026, it unveiled Kimi K3, the world’s first open 2.8 trillion-parameter model with a 1 million-token context window, designed for complex reasoning, software engineering and long-horizon AI agents.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Moonshot AI?
Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company developing frontier foundation models, large language models, AI agents and the Kimi AI assistant for consumers and enterprises.
Who founded Moonshot AI?
Moonshot AI was founded in early 2023 by Yang Zhilin, Wu Yuxin and Xinyu Zhou.
What is Moonshot AI best known for?
The company is best known for its Kimi family of AI models and assistants, including Kimi K2 and Kimi K3, which focus on long-context reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding and autonomous AI agents.
How much funding has Moonshot AI raised?
Moonshot AI has raised approximately US$5.4 billion across multiple funding rounds, according to reported funding data.
What is Moonshot AI's latest valuation?
The latest completed reported funding round in May 2026 valued Moonshot AI at approximately US$20 billion. Reports in July 2026 indicated the company was seeking new funding at around a US$30 billion valuation, but that valuation has not been confirmed by a completed financing.
Where is Moonshot AI headquartered?
Moonshot AI is headquartered in Beijing, China.
