Sources: in recent weeks, China told tech companies, like ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition
Chinese regulators plan to restrict technology firms including some of the country's highest-profile AI pioneers …
Sources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to raise funding at ~$18B valuation
Markets will be watching to see if the company can replicate the success of recent listings by other Chinese AI companies
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead …
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, which makes Kimi AI models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital; Alibaba and Tencent also invested
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating
The Kimi AI model developer is now valued at US$4.3 billion, with cash reserves worth US$1.4 billion
Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026
Wall Street Journal :
Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks
Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday …
China's top-valued AI startup, Moonshot AI, recently debuted a role-play chat app and music maker app in the US; Chinese rival MiniMax also expanded to the US
Alibaba leverages computing resources to become a leading AI investor in China; sources: cloud credits made up ~50% of Alibaba's $800M investment in Moonshot AI
Ecommerce giant offers computing resources to fast-growing start-ups in exchange for equity — Alibaba has been leveraging …
A look at four Chinese generative AI startups, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai, which have been valued between $1.2B and $2.5B in the past three months
Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai are striving to rival the success of US counterparts