Lab profileActive frontier lab
Moonshot AI / Kimi (月之暗面)
Long WindowTotem · Crescent moon
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.
Founded
2023
Location
Beijing
Kimi K1.5Kimi K2Kimi K2.5Kimi K2.6
Valuation
$20B
$2B round at $20B valuation
Funding raised
$3.9B
$3.9B raised over the past six months; earlier rounds not fully itemized
Key people
Investors
Government backing
Beijing Municipal Government (北京市政府)
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 May 29, 2026. Compare them on the models page.
News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
ISR 1 hour
DealMay 21, 2026
Moonshot AI / Kimi
Moonshot AI dismantles VIE structure, targets Hong Kong IPO with $20B+ valuation.