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| Tencent, Gaorong Capital |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Series A | $1B | $2.5B | Alibaba |
Yang Zhilin is the co-founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, which he started in 2023 with Tsinghua University classmates Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin. He previously worked as a researcher at Meta AI and Google Brain. Under his leadership Moonshot built the Kimi chatbot and the open-weight Kimi K2 model family and reached a $20B valuation in May 2026.
Zhou Xinyu co-founded Moonshot AI in 2023 alongside Yang Zhilin and Wu Yuxin, having been classmates at Tsinghua University. The Beijing-based company develops the Kimi chatbot and Kimi model family.
Wu Yuxin is a co-founder of Moonshot AI, the Beijing large-model lab established in 2023 by three Tsinghua University classmates. The company is best known for the Kimi chatbot and the open-weight Kimi K2 models.
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Moonshot's flagship consumer chatbot, first launched in October 2023, known early on for its very long context window. It is the company's main consumer-facing product.
Moonshot's open-weight large-model line, with Kimi K2 (released July 2025) being a roughly 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 32B active parameters, followed by multimodal and reasoning variants such as Kimi K2.5 and Kimi K2 Thinking.
A reasoning-focused model released in January 2025 that Moonshot positioned as competitive with OpenAI's o1-class reasoning systems.
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