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Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI, formally Beijing Moonshot AI Technology Co., Ltd., is an artificial intelligence company based in Beijing. It develops the Kimi series of open-weights large language models and the Kimi chatbot. It released Kimi K3 in July 2026.

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Founder and chief executive

Yang Zhilin

Founders

Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin

Founded

2023

Who it reaches

Users of its Kimi models on the web, through an API, and through the Kimi Code command-line agent.

Key facts

Founded: March 2023 in Beijingsource
Headquarters: JD Technology Building, in Beijing's Haidian districtsource
Valuation: US$35 billion by July 2026source
Kimi K3: released July 2026, at 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open weights modelsource

WYDE coverage of Moonshot AI

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Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3, the Largest Open-Weight AI Model at 2.8 Trillion Parameters

Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read

Sources

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