Moonshot AI

Develops the Kimi family of large language models and the Kimi assistant, focused on long-context reasoning and agentic tasks.

Founded
2023 · Beijing, China
Founders
Yang Zhilin (Co-founder and CEO) · Zhou Xinyu (Co-founder) · Wu Yuxin (Co-founder)

In their words

“All good algorithms work well with scaling and allow for greater potential.”
Yang Zhilin, Founder and CEO · KrASIA (36Kr English), 2024-11-22

As published in English by KrASIA (36Kr), translated and edited from Chinese.

On the record

  • 2026-06-08Reported to be in talks to raise up to $2 billion at a targeted $30 billion valuation, per Bloomberg. The Next Web (citing Bloomberg)
  • 2026-05-07Raised a $2 billion round led by Meituan Dragon Ball at a post-money valuation above $20 billion; Kimi's annualised recurring revenue passed $200 million by end of April. The Next Web (citing Bloomberg)

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