Moonshot AI
Company www.moonshot.cn ● Covered in 49 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph
Moonshot AI is a China-based AI company behind the Kimi model family, including the open-weight Kimi K3. Recent coverage describes its push to monetize Kimi (including targets for annualized revenue) and its role in the deployment ecosystem, alongside Anthropic allegations of distillation activity involving Claude models. Moonshot AI has also been linked to developer-focused updates such as agent and persistence approaches and to new offerings built on Kimi variants, such as third-party APIs fine-tuned for specific use cases.
Updated 13 September 2026
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7 stories (-75%)
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20 sources
Source diversity
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8 events
Release activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
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Funding signals
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
Jul 2025 → Sep 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Funding history
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about €10 million Other announced coverage →
Latest developments
Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost
MarkTechPost · 4 days ago ·
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Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue
TechCrunch · 5 days ago ·
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Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
TechCrunch · 6 days ago ·
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French Investors Value China’s Moonshot AI, Maker of Kimi K3, at $30 Billion
Trending Topics · 6 days ago ·
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U.S. Agencies Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Siphoning Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok
Trending Topics · 1 week ago ·
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When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem
The New Stack · 2 weeks ago ·
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America’s immigration policy is driving away future AI leaders
Rest of World · 3 weeks ago ·
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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Namazu, a Japanese-Specialized LLM API
Sakana AI ·
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September 2026
US NSA, CISA, and FBI issued an advisory accusing six Chinese AI firms of bulk distillation of capabilities from US frontier models Security issue
- Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost
- Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue
- Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
- French Investors Value China’s Moonshot AI, Maker of Kimi K3, at $30 Billion
- U.S. Agencies Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Siphoning Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok
- When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem
August 2026
Sakana AI launches Japanese-specialized Namazu LLM API and advances partnership with Daiwa Securities to production phase Product launch
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model with coding and autonomous agent capabilities Model release
- America’s immigration policy is driving away future AI leaders
- Sakana AI Launches Sakana Namazu, a Japanese-Specialized LLM API
- LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
- Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide
July 2026
Moonshot released Kimi K3, a large open-weight AI model Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open model with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1-million-token context window Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with API pricing and delayed weights availability Model release
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight large language model Model release
- Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS
- Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
- With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
- Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
- Together AI announces strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to natively serve Kimi models
- Building Non-Interactive Agentic Coding Workflows with Moonshot AI’s Kimi CLI, JSONL Streaming, Testing, and Session Memory
- [AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
- moonshotai/Kimi-K3
- Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3
- Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it
- Why China is giving away its best AI models
- Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
- White House’s Response to China Lacks Confidence in America
- Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost and Coding
- 🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI?
- Moonshot launched Kimi K3. Then demand shut down subscriptions in 48 hours.
- US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
- Washington Backed Away from Banning Chinese Open AI Models, For Now
- [AINews] not much happened today
- Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower
- Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
- On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents
- China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
- Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
- The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
- 🔮 Kimi K3 surprise & AI economics; the solar paradox; AI's right to learn, cancer vaccine & junior jobs++
- Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
- Kimi: Threat or menace?
- Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weight
- [AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
- China has a new top model
- Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Context
- Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
- Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
- Kimi Code: Autonomous Coding Agent and CLI
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Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Kimi K3 · 33 sources
- Develops K3 · 2 sources
- Develops AgentENV · 1 source
- Deploys Hugging Face · 1 source
- Develops Kimi · 1 source
- Develops MoonEP · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.6 · 1 source
- Develops Kimi CLI · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.5 · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2.7 Code · 1 source
- Develops Kimi K2 · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Owns Kimi K3 · 1 source