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Funding
Moonshot AI raises $3.5B at $35B valuation*
Reported $3.5B at about $35B, led by China's state-backed National AI Industry Investment Fund (Bloomberg). Straits Times reported a higher ~$45B valuation; not confirmed by Moonshot.
bloomberg.com (source, opens in a new tab)Release
Kimi K3
2.8T-parameter multimodal MoE with a 1M-token context; open weights followed on Jul 27, 2026.
kimi.ai (source, opens in a new tab)Release
Kimi K2.7 Code
platform.kimi.ai (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation in Meituan-led round
bloomberg.com (source, opens in a new tab)Release
Kimi K2.6
platform.kimi.ai (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises $700M at $10B valuation
en.sedaily.com (source, opens in a new tab)Release
Kimi K2.5
platform.kimi.ai (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises $500M Series C led by IDG at $4.3B
caixinglobal.com (source, opens in a new tab)
Sources: company announcements & release notes, press reports. * not independently verified.
Fact box
- HQ
- Beijing, China
- Founded
- 2023
- CEO
- Yang Zhilin
- Valuation
- $35B (Jul 2026, reported)
- Core products
- Kimi · Kimi K2 models
- Latest round
- $3.5B Round led by National AI Industry Investment Fund · Jul 2026
- Stories
- 37
Sources: moonshot.ai, bloomberg.com
Editor's picks
Deals & funding
Moonshot AI · rounds, valuations, partners, acquisitions · $7.7B raised in tracked primary rounds
Funding
Moonshot AI raises $3.5B at $35B valuation*
Reported $3.5B at about $35B, led by China's state-backed National AI Industry Investment Fund (Bloomberg). Straits Times reported a higher ~$45B valuation; not confirmed by Moonshot.
bloomberg.com (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation in Meituan-led round
bloomberg.com (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises $700M at $10B valuation
en.sedaily.com (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises $500M Series C led by IDG at $4.3B
caixinglobal.com (source, opens in a new tab)Funding
Moonshot AI raises over $1B led by Alibaba
techcrunch.com (source, opens in a new tab)
All 5 rounds & deals as a table · 5 funding, 0 partnerships, 0 acquisitions
| Date | Event | Type | Counterparty / round | Amount | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2026 | Moonshot AI raises $3.5B at $35B valuation* Reported $3.5B at about $35B, led by China's state-backed National AI Industry Investment Fund (Bloomberg). Straits Times reported a higher ~$45B valuation; not confirmed by Moonshot. | Funding | Round led by National AI Industry Investment Fund | $3.5B | $35B | bloomberg.com |
| May 7, 2026 | Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation in Meituan-led round About $2B at a $20B valuation in a round led by Meituan's Long-Z Investments, with Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile and CPE Yuanfeng (Bloomberg, TechCrunch, SCMP). | Funding | Round led by Meituan (Long-Z) | $2B | $20B | bloomberg.com |
| Feb 2026 | Moonshot AI raises $700M at $10B valuation Raised more than $700M at about a $10B valuation from Alibaba, Tencent, 5Y Capital and Andon, plus others, making Moonshot a decacorn (Bloomberg, SCMP, Seoul Economic Daily). | Funding | Round led by Alibaba, Tencent, 5Y Capital & Andon | $700M | $10B | en.sedaily.com |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Moonshot AI raises $500M Series C led by IDG at $4.3B Confirmed by founder Yang Zhilin in an internal letter (Dec 31, 2025): oversubscribed Series C, cash reserves above ¥10B. IDG invested $150M; valuation $4.3B per LatePost/SCMP/Caixin. | Funding | Series C | $500M | $4.3B | caixinglobal.com |
| Feb 2024 | Moonshot AI raises over $1B led by Alibaba Over $1B Series B led by Alibaba and HongShan, with Meituan and Xiaohongshu also investing (TechCrunch citing Chinese media; Bloomberg). Post-money valuation about $2.5B. | Funding | Series B | $1B | $2.5B | techcrunch.com |
Sources: press reports. * not independently verified.
More stories
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Kimi K3 Analysis: Performance Claims vs Western AI Rivals
Kimi K3 has generated buzz for claiming to outperform models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5. This analysis reviews the gaps in benchmarks, pricing, and bilingual capabilities…
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Kimi K2.7-Code: Internal Benchmarks and Transparency Gaps
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2.7-Code with a 21.8% internal improvement claim, but lacks comparisons on public benchmarks. Explore the implications for enterprise coding AI adoption.
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FlashKDA: Moonshot AI’s Open-Source CUDA Kernels for LLM Speed
Discover Moonshot AI’s FlashKDA, a high-performance open-source toolkit using CUTLASS for accelerating Kimi Delta Attention. Achieve faster LLM decoding with variable-length batching, reducing inference costs. Explore…
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PrfaaS: Global KV Cache for Efficient LLM Serving
Discover PrfaaS, a groundbreaking architecture from Moonshot AI and Tsinghua University that distributes the KV Cache across datacenters worldwide, reducing costs and latency for global AI…
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Kimi Claw: Moonshot AI’s AI Agent Platform Launch
Moonshot AI launches Kimi Claw, a developer platform with OpenClaw support, 5,000 skills, and 40GB storage to simplify AI agent building. Explore its impact on developers…
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Kimi K2.5: Moonshot AI’s Open-Source Visual Agentic Intelligence
Explore Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal model featuring Mixture-of-Experts, native vision encoding, and Agent Swarm for efficient multi-agent tasks. Discover its potential to revolutionize…
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Chinese Foundation Models Reshape Global AI Market
Discover how Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen are challenging Western dominance with high-performance, cost-effective options. Explore impacts on developers, enterprises, and the global AI…
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Kimi K2 Thinking: Mastering Long-Horizon Agentic AI
Discover Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking, an open reasoning model excelling in 300 sequential tool calls for agentic workflows. Explore its MoE architecture, 256k context, and…
Models & specs
Moonshot AI · context window, max output, API price, modalities, knowledge cutoff, license
| Model | Released | Context | Max output | Price in / out (per 1M) | Modalities | Knowledge cutoff | License / access | Spec source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 | Jul 16, 2026 | 1M | — | $3 / $15 cached $0.3 Kimi API list price (platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat, accessed 2026-10-22). Cache write $3.00 (5-min TTL) / $6.00 (1-h TTL); official context 1,048,576 tokens. | Text, image in → text out | — | Open weights (released 27 Jul 2026) 2.8T total (MoE) | kimi.ai |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Jun 2026 | 262K | — | $0.95 / $4 cached $0.19 Kimi API list price, accessed 2026-10-22. Highspeed variant: $1.90 in / $8.00 out ($0.38 cached). | — | — | — | platform.kimi.ai |
| Kimi K2.6 | Apr 2026 | 262K | — | $0.95 / $4 cached $0.16 Kimi API list price, accessed 2026-10-22. | — | — | — | platform.kimi.ai |
| Kimi K2.5 | Jan 2026 | 262K | — | $0.5 / $2.5 cached $0.15 OpenRouter listed price (third-party hosts), accessed 2026-10-22; Moonshot retired kimi-k2.5 on its own API on 31 Aug 2026. | — | — | — | openrouter.ai |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | Nov 6, 2025 | 256K | — | $0.6 / $2.5 cached $0.15 OpenRouter listed price, accessed 2026-10-22 (matches Moonshot launch pricing). Retired on Moonshot's own API 25 May 2026. | Text in → text out | — | Open weights, modified MIT 1T total / 32B active (MoE) | moonshotai.github.io |
| Kimi K2 Kimi-K2-Base, Kimi-K2-Instruct | Jul 11, 2025 | 128K | — | $0.6 / $2.5 cached $0.15 Moonshot launch list price, July 2025 (CNBC). Moonshot retired the kimi-k2 series on its API on 25 May 2026; OpenRouter hosts list ~$0.57/$2.30. | Text in → text out | — | Open weights, modified MIT 1T total / 32B active (MoE) | moonshotai.github.io |
| Kimi k1.5 | Jan 20, 2025 | — | — | — | — | — | — | github.com |
Sources: company announcements & release notes. Prices = standard API list price in USD per 1M tokens at time of release or current docs; batch is typically 50% off.