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Moonshot AI

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Company overview

What Moonshot AI does

Moonshot AI (website: moonshot.ai) is an AI company focused on long-context and “open-weight” foundation models, marketed through its Kimi model and developer platform. The company’s flagship model in this cycle is Kimi K3: a 2.8T open model with native multimodality and a claimed 1-million-token context window, positioned for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. Moonshot also provides an API platform and client applications (desktop/mobile) centered on Kimi, plus tooling and agent features intended to let users execute multi-step tasks end-to-end (for example, agentic workflows and coding assistance).

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Company record

May 07, 2026 · Reporting · TechCrunchMoonshot AI reports raising about $2B at a $20B valuation (round led by Long-Z Investments)

TechCrunch reported a funding round raising about $2B at a $20B valuation, led by Long-Z Investments, with other named participants including Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile, and CPE Yuanfeng.

Feb 21, 2024 · Reporting · TechCrunchMoonshot AI reports raising $1B+ at $2.5B valuation (co-led by Alibaba and HongShan)

TechCrunch reported Moonshot AI raising over $1B in a Series B round valuing it at $2.5B, and named co-leading investors including Alibaba and HongShan plus other reported participants.

Date not disclosed · Official · Kimi Forum (Moonshot AI)Kimi K3 forum announcement with API pricing and rollout guidance

Moonshot AI posted a forum announcement for Kimi K3 including pricing and usage notes (model ID, cached vs uncached pricing, and guidance about reasoning effort and multi-model session handling).

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Capital

Funding

Latest disclosed valuation$20B

Tracked capital$5B6 sourced rounds

DateRoundRaisedValuationLead / investorsEvidence

May 07, 2026Growth/late-stage round (undisclosed series)$2B$20B

Long-Z Investments

+9 investors

5Y Capital Alibaba China Mobile CPE Yuanfeng HongShan IDG Capital Tencent Tsinghua Capital ZhenFund

Dec 31, 2025Series C$500M$4.3B

+4 investors

Alibaba Group Holding Meituan Tencent Holdings Wang Huiwen

Aug 05, 2024Growth/Series B (later tranche)$300M$3.3B

Not attributed

+3 investors

Alibaba Group Holding Gaorong Capital Tencent Holdings

Feb 21, 2024Series B$1B$2.5B

Alibaba Group Holding

+3 investors

HongShan Meituan Xiaohongshu

UndatedSeries B (reported)$1B$2.5B

Alibaba HongShan

+2 investors

Meituan Xiaohongshu

UndatedSeed$200M$300M

Not attributed

+2 investors

HongShan Zhen Fund

Products & focus

What it builds

Kimi (chatbot/app ecosystem)

Kimi is Moonshot AI’s consumer and developer-facing assistant experience used for long-context conversations and long-horizon knowledge work, including agentic capabilities.

Kimi Code

Kimi Code is Moonshot AI’s coding-focused interface intended to run terminal/IDE workflows and leverage long-context understanding for software projects.

People

Leadership

Yang ZhilinFounder & CEO

Operating signals

Key metrics

Annual recurring revenue (ARR) topped$200 millionMay 07, 2026 Kimi K3 API input pricing (cached / uncached)$0.30/MTok cached input; $3.00/MTok uncached input; $15.00/MTok outputJul 22, 2026

Company history

Milestones & partnerships

Moonshot AI founded; began its AGI-focused journey

Moonshot AI states that it was founded in spring 2023 as part of its “AGI Odyssey since 2023.”

↗Date not disclosed

Kimi K3 unveiled as an open 2.8T model with 1M-token context

Moonshot AI described Kimi K3 as a 2.8T-parameter open model with native vision and a 1-million-token context window, built for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning.