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Moonshot AI

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Moonshot AI is a Chinese AI startup founded by Yang Zhilin, spun off from Recurrent AI in what some investors described as a "departure to start anew" rather than a direct continuation of the previous business . The company has positioned itself as an aspiring world-leading AGI company, with stated ambitions to surpass Anthropic .

The company is best known for Kimi, its conversational AI assistant built on a self-developed 100-billion-parameter model, which gained early traction for its long-context capabilities—supporting up to 2 million characters of lossless context by early 2024 . Moonshot AI has since pushed aggressively into open-source model releases, including its K2 series of trillion-parameter MoE models and the K2 Thinking reasoning model, which it has pitched as competitive with GPT-4.1, Claude 4 Opus, and other frontier systems on coding, reasoning, and agentic benchmarks .

On funding, Capital Today was its first-round investor and remained the largest financial investor before Alibaba's major investment, while ZhenFund participated in the 2023 angel round and Monolith has been a consistent early and repeat backer . The company closed a $500 million Series C round led by IDG in late 2025, with Alibaba and Tencent as participating existing shareholders . As of early 2026, its valuation exceeded 120 billion RMB (roughly $16-17 billion) .

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