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Moonshot AI - overview
Established
2023
Location
Beijing, -, China
Primary Industry
Internet
About
Founded in 2023 and based in Beijing, China, Beijing Moonshot AI Technology Co. , Ltd. , trading as Moonshot AI, operates as a technology company that focuses on the research and development of general multimodal large models. The company's founder, Zhilin Yang, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and used to work for companies such as Facebook and Google.
Its team members participated in the research and development of large models such as Google Gemini, Google Bard, Pangu NLP, and Wudao. In October 2023, Moonshot AI launched Kimi, which is a smart assistant product. In February 2026, Moonshot AI raised USD 700 million in venture funding from JiAn Investment, Alibaba Group, Tencent Investment, and 5Y Capital. The company is mainly engaged in the research and development of the next generation of cross-modal large models.
It invented RoPE relative position encoding and group normalization. Its main product is the Kimi intelligent assistant, which is an artificial intelligence chat tool. It supports the input of 200,000 Chinese characters, with functions such as intelligent dialogue and text generation. The company generates revenue by providing general multimodal large models and artificial intelligence chat tools.
Current Investors
Capital Today, ZhenFund, HSG
Primary Industry
Internet
Sub Industries
Web Applications, Software
Website
www.moonshot.cn
Verticals
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Mobile Apps
Company Stage
Series C
Total Amount Raised
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