Moonshot AI - Organization Profile

Moonshot AI is an artificial intelligence company located in Beijing, famous for its intelligent assistant Kimi and the open source Kimi K2 series of large models. The company focuses on ultra-long context and powerful agent capabilities. Its open source models are widely used in the global developer community. It is one of China's leading large-scale model startups in terms of financing.

Creation and Team

March 2023 was founded by Yang Zhilin, an alumnus of Tsinghua University who has worked at Google Brain and Meta and is the core author of important works such as Transformer-XL and XLNet.
Early access to the market with intelligent assistant Kimi’s ultra-long context (supporting millions of words of input).

Flagship model

Kimi K2: A large MoE model with one trillion (1T) total parameters. It attracted widespread attention after being open sourced in July 2025.
Kimi K2 Thinking: A thinking version that strengthens reasoning ability
Kimi K2.5: multi-modal version released in January 2026
Kimi K2.6 / K2.7: The latest generation flagship, in which K2.7 Code strengthens programming capabilities; the K2.6 series once became the second most used large model on OpenRouter
Moonlight-16B-A3B, Kimi k1.5 / k1.6, etc.

Latest Development (2026)

In May 2026, it completed approximately 2 billion U.S. dollars in financing, with a valuation of 20 billion U.S. dollars, led by Longzhu Capital, a subsidiary of Meituan; within half a year, the total financing amounted to approximately 3.9 billion U.S. dollars.
Kimi annualized recurring revenue (ARR) grew from approximately $100 million in early March 2026 to over $200 million at the end of April.

Leader: Yang Zhilin (Founder/CEO) Official website: moonshot.cn / Assistant: kimi.com

Note: The financing and valuation data in this section are public information as of mid-2026 and may change over time.