Moonshot AI / Kimi (月之暗面)
Known for: Kimi consumer assistant; long context; open model releases.
Founded by ex-Tsinghua KEG / CMU PhD Yang Zhilin (杨植麟). Long-context flagship Kimi consumer chatbot.
Models & API pricing
Rates are OpenRouter's listed prices (USD per 1M tokens), a convenient cross-provider benchmark. First-party / native API pricing in China can differ, sometimes materially. Source: OpenRouter, as of Aug 16, 2026. Compare them on the models page.
News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi) closes $3.5B Series F at $35B valuation and targets a $50B pre-IPO round ahead of a Hong Kong listing.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi)'s open-source Moonshot K3 model lands Coinbase and Airbnb as customers, slashing their AI costs.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi) celebrated K3 with a 'Moon Landing' slogan; co-founder Zhang Yutong appeared, vowing to upgrade K3 and push K4.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi) launches Moonshot K3, which Wall Street says actually strengthens compute demand rather than reducing it.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi) releases Moonshot K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model claiming performance near frontier closed-source models.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi) sees Moonshot valuation hit $31.5B, ARR surpasses $300M.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi)'s trillion-parameter Moonshot K2.6 model runs on four Mac Studios via LM Studio and Apple, achieving 28 tokens/s.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: Moonshot; product: Moonshot) partners with a bank to launch a co-branded AI credit card.
Moonshot AI (Chinese: 月之暗面; product: Kimi) launches Moonshot Work, a desktop local agent that decomposes tasks, browses, and produces documents with 13-hour coding.