Moonshot AI

Updated: May 07, 2026
CEO - Yang Zhilin
CEO - Yang Zhilin
Country: China | Funding: $4.8B (+)
Founded: 2023

Website: https://www.moonshot.cn

MoonShot is an AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models. Moonshot’s Kimi models compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, Zhipu’s Z.ai, and DeepSeek.




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