Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company founded in March 2023 that develops large language models under the Kimi brand. The company's flagship open-weight models, including Kimi K2 and Kimi K2.6, use a mixture-of-experts architecture with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters, and are released under a modified MIT license. Moonshot AI offers both a consumer-facing AI assistant at kimi.com and a developer API platform, with its models competing in coding, agentic tasks, and multimodal reasoning against leading Western AI systems. The company is backed by Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, and other investors, and was valued at $20 billion following a $2 billion funding round in May 2026.