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A company focused on AI technology, founded by Yang Zhilin in March 2023. It is dedicated to developing large AI models, with its core product being the Kimi intelligent assistant.

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Moonshot AIIntroduction

Moonshot AI (ai) is a company focused on artificial intelligence technology, founded by Yang Zhilin in March 2023. The company is dedicated to developing large-scale AI models, with its core product being the Kimi Intelligent Assistant, which supports long-text processing and is capable of deep learning and natural language processing.

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Products & Technology

Kimi Intelligent Assistant: Supports input of up to 200,000 Chinese characters, with powerful Chinese processing capabilities and multilingual abilities, including long-text summarization, web search, data processing, code writing, user interaction, and translation, showing tremendous potential in fields such as finance, law, and scientific research that require rapid analysis and summarization of lengthy documents.
Moonshot AI Open Platform: Provides flexible API invocation features, supporting developers in building applications featuring leading intelligence levels.

Founding Team

Yang Zhilin: Received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Turing Award laureate Tang Jie. He previously worked at Google Brain Research and the AI division of Meta (Facebook).
Zhou Xinyu: Co-founder, previously worked at well-known tech companies such as Megvii and Meta.
Wu Yuxin: Co-founder, with a Tsinghua University background, has participated in multiple large model projects.
Team Background: Team members come from international tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Amazon, with extensive industry experience and technical strength.

Funding

June 2023: Secured over USD 200 million in angel round funding, with a post-investment valuation of approximately USD 300 million.

February 2024: Secured over USD 1 billion in A+ round funding from investors including Sequoia China, Xiaohongshu, and Alibaba, with a valuation reaching USD 2.5 billion.

August 2024: Completed a new round of funding exceeding USD 300 million, with Tencent participating in the investment, raising the company's valuation to USD 3.3 billion.

Latest Developments

February 2024: The Moonshot AI Open Platform launched public beta, marking the point at which all developers can begin utilizing the platform.

November 2024: Kimi Intelligent Assistant reached 36 million monthly active users, and the company launched a new math model called k0-math, positioned to compete with OpenAI's o1 series.