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Latest news, updates, and announcements from Moonshot AI.
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) Completes ~$2B Funding, Valuation Surpasses $20B
Moonshot AI, the Chinese AI lab behind the Kimi assistant, has closed approximately $20 billion in new funding, pushing its post-money valuation above $200 billion, according to a report from 36Kr cit...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) and Step Intelligence have both secured new funding rounds, continuing the wave o...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) and Step Intelligence have both secured new funding rounds, continuing the wave of capital flowing into Chinese AI startups. The specific amounts and valuations were not disclosed i...
Kimi raises $2B at $20B valuation, led by Meituan Longzhu and China Mobile
Kimi, the Chinese conversational AI assistant backed by Moonshot AI (月之暗面), has raised approximately $2 billion in a funding round that values the company at $20 billion. The round was led by Meituan...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) completes ~$20B funding round, post-money valuation exceeds $20B
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) has closed a new funding round of approximately $20 billion, raising its post-money valuation above $20 billion, according to Chinese financial outlet Sina Finance. The round was le...
Moonshot raises $2B at $20B valuation, becomes China's most-funded AI lab
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the popular Kimi chatbot and open-source large language models, has raised approximately $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, according to a statement fro...
Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B+ valuation from Meituan and others.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has raised $2 billion in new funding led by Meituan's investment arm Long-Z Investment, at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. Participants include China Mobile, Tsinghua...
Moonshot AI gains ground with coding-capable Kimi LLM, challenging China's AI ranks
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI (月之暗面) is gaining traction with its large language model 'Kimi,' which is earning praise for strong coding capabilities, according to a report by Nikkei xTECH. The story...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面), the Chinese foundation-model lab behind the Kimi assistant, has raised approxima...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面), the Chinese foundation-model lab behind the Kimi assistant, has raised approximately $2 billion in a new funding round led by Meituan Dragon Ball, with participation from Shuimu Ca...
Moonshot raises ~$2B at $20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm
Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot, has raised approximately $2 billion at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. The round was led by Meituan's venture arm, making it one of the lar...
Moonshot AI, a Chinese foundation model lab, has raised $2 billion in a funding round led by Meituan, valuing the company at $20 billion.
This capital injection underscores the intensifying compute arms race among China's top AI labs, where frontier model development requires billions in GPU spending. Moonshot AI's ascent to a $20B valu...
Moonshot AI is close to completing a $2 billion funding round at a valuation exceeding $20 billion,...
Moonshot AI is close to completing a $2 billion funding round at a valuation exceeding $20 billion, according to LatePost. The round is reportedly led by Meituan's Long-Z Fund, with China Mobile and C...
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.6 model with enhanced long-form coding and autonomous agent features.
Moonshot AI has officially released and open-sourced its Kimi K2.6 model, targeting significant advancements in coding and agentic workflows. According to the release, the model demonstrates high perf...
Moonshot AI introduces Prefill-as-a-Service to optimize long-context inference architecture.
Moonshot AI's Kimi team has proposed a new architectural paradigm known as Prefill-as-a-Service (PrFaaS). This specific technical framework is designed to address existing challenges in large model in...
Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is planning a Hong Kong IPO while raising $1B at an $18B val...
Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is planning a Hong Kong IPO while raising $1B at an $18B valuation, a 4x surge from $4.3B just 3 months ago. 🚀 Its K2.5 model generated more revenue in 20 days...
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is seeking a $10 billion valuation with Alibaba and Tencent doubling...
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is seeking a $10 billion valuation with Alibaba and Tencent doubling their investments, just months after raising $500 million at $4.3 billion in December 2025. This 2.3...
China's Moonshot AI is targeting up to $12B valuation in a $700M funding round—179% jump from $2.5B...
China's Moonshot AI is targeting up to $12B valuation in a $700M funding round—179% jump from $2.5B just one year ago—driven by Kimi K2.5's benchmark wins over GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5. The 1T-para...
Moonshot AI launched Kimi Claw on Kimi.com, natively integrating the OpenClaw framework for a persis...
Moonshot AI launched Kimi Claw on Kimi.com, natively integrating the OpenClaw framework for a persistent, 24/7 AI agent environment. The platform provides 40GB of dedicated cloud storage for data-heav...
Moonshot AI is migrating its 1-trillion parameter Kimi K2.5 infrastructure to domestic silicon as fo...
Moonshot AI is migrating its 1-trillion parameter Kimi K2.5 infrastructure to domestic silicon as foreign GPU shortages reach a critical peak in February 2026 🚀 The move bridges a severe compute gap...
Moonshot AI’s Kimi 2.5 is now the world’s top open-source model, ranking 5th on the global Artificia...
Moonshot AI’s Kimi 2.5 is now the world’s top open-source model, ranking 5th on the global Artificial Analysis Index. This 1T-parameter MoE model features 32B active parameters and native multimodal s...
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.5, a multimodal 1-trillion parameter model trained on 15 trillion t...
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.5, a multimodal 1-trillion parameter model trained on 15 trillion tokens that reportedly outperforms GPT-5.2 in reasoning. This release introduces Agent Swarm technolo...