Moonshot AI (Kimi)
月之暗面
AI, Large Models & AI ChipsBeijing · North (Beijing · Tianjin · Hebei · Shanxi · Inner Mongolia)Direct Aura partner
Business focus
LLM / AI brain
Description
Founded in Beijing in March 2023 by Yang Zhilin, Zhang Yuhui and Wu Yuxin, Moonshot AI develops the Kimi assistant, launched in October 2023 with an industry-leading ~200,000-character context window at the time, later expanded to a 1-million-token window in the Kimi K2 model. Backed by Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China); valuation topped $20 billion by 2025.