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Latest news, updates, and announcements from Moonshot AI.
Moonshot AI limits Kimi K3.1 Pro's cyber capabilities before releasing weights
Beijing-based Moonshot AI said it reduced offensive cyber capabilities in Kimi K3.1 Pro by removing cyber-related training data and reinforcement-learning environments. The company plans to publish th...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 reportedly tops a frontend coding leaderboard
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 reportedly reached 1,679 Elo on LMArena's Frontend Code Arena on October 12, compared with 1,618 for OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol. Shattered attributes the figures to a comparison publis...
Moonshot AI reportedly closes final private round ahead of planned Hong Kong IPO
Moonshot AI has completed its final private funding round at an approximately $50 billion valuation and is pursuing a Hong Kong IPO in the first quarter of 2027, according to unnamed sources cited by...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 hits 709 tokens/sec on 16 Google TPU v7 chips, beating GB200's 452 in a like-f...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 hits 709 tokens/sec on 16 Google TPU v7 chips, beating GB200's 452 in a like-for-like inference test built by vLLM's founding team. Inferact, a startup founded by the original vL...
Moonshot AI's Kimi Browser Extension Turns Web Actions Into Reusable Skills
Moonshot AI has turned its four-month-old Kimi WebBridge tool into a full Chrome/Edge browser extension, adding a sidebar chat interface and the ability to record repeated web actions as reusable "Ski...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Goes Live on Amazon Bedrock, Expanding Enterprise Reach
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with native vision and a 1-million-token context window — is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Moonshot reports roughly 2.5x...
Moonshot AI Faces Police Report Over Viral Founder Rumor at $50B Pre-IPO Window
A WeChat group screenshot with no attributed source spread late September 11 through Chinese venture and AI practitioner chats, then onto Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Weibo. By midday September 12, Moonsh...
Moonshot AI targets $2B in annualized revenue as Anthropic alleges a Kimi distillation campaign
Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi assistant, is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported — double the run rate the company reported for August....
Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annualized sales by the end of 2026.
The Kimi-maker's leadership has set a goal of reaching $2 billion in annualized revenue by year-end 2026, according to Tech in Asia. The company, founded in 2023 and now one of China's best-funded fou...
Moonshot AI moves toward Hong Kong listing with expanded bank syndicate and fresh valuation targets.
Moonshot AI, the Chinese foundation-model startup behind Kimi K3, has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO seeking to raise $3 billion to $5 billion, according to South China Morning Post and Bloo...
Moonshot AI Confidentially Files for Hong Kong IPO
Beijing-based foundation model developer Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi model family, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter...
Moonshot AI Confidentially Files A1 Form for Hong Kong IPO, Targets $50B Valuation
Moonshot AI has confidentially filed an A1 form with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the formal first step in a Hong Kong IPO process, according to the report. The Kimi K3 developer is targeting a $50 b...
Moonshot AI Signals Japan Entry With Kimi Subscription Giveaway
Moonshot AI said on August 21 that Kimi is beginning its operations in Japan, posting the announcement through a newly established Japanese-language X account. The company paired the message with a gi...
Moonshot AI's Kimi Enters Japan With Paid-Plan Promotional Campaign
Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant has begun an official launch in Japan, according to Japanese outlet ITmedia. The rollout is accompanied by a promotional campaign, themed 'Hello, Japan,' offering free acc...
**Moonshot AI Hits $160B Valuation on Flat Structure, Kimi K3 Momentum**
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI has reached a valuation of $160 billion, powered by its Kimi K3 model and a distinctive 'no-boss' flat organizational culture that the company credits for attracting top-tie...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 reveal a strategic rift in Chinese foundation-model developmen...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 reveal a strategic rift in Chinese foundation-model development over when to invest in native multimodality. Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts...
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, Built on Alibaba Cloud, Outpaces Alibaba's Qwen: Compute Rental Creates Export Control Gap
A Bloomberg investigation confirmed that Alibaba provided Moonshot AI with approximately 20,000 Nvidia chips via a cloud computing agreement, powering the training of Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) closes $3.5B Series F at $35B valuation, plans Pre-IPO round. The Beijing-based f...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) closes $3.5B Series F at $35B valuation, plans Pre-IPO round. The Beijing-based foundation-model lab behind the Kimi chatbot raised over $3.5 billion in a Series F round, pushing it...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) raises $483 million (RMB 3.5 billion) in an oversubscribed D+ round, pushing its...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) raises $483 million (RMB 3.5 billion) in an oversubscribed D+ round, pushing its valuation to $35 billion, and is now seeking a $50 billion pre-money valuation for a Pre-IPO round....
Moonshot AI targets $50B valuation ahead of Hong Kong IPO
Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of the Kimi model series, has set its sights on a $50 billion pre-money valuation for a pre-IPO round, following a $3.5 billion fundraise that pegged its valuation a...