The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models
This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot …
Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valuation, Moonshot plans a final raise at a $50B valuation to capitalize on Kimi K3 buzz before a Hong Kong IPO
Moonshot AI is preparing to begin discussions in August on a final round of fundraising before listing in Hong Kong …
Sources: Moonshot plans to launch Kimi K3, China's largest model to date with 2T-3T parameters, in the coming days; it's expected to outperform Claude Opus 4.8
Kimi K3 expected to exceed performance of Claude Opus 4.8 in sign of narrowing gap between US and China on frontier AI
Sources: Chinese companies like Moonshot are reconsidering “red-chip structures”, which make it easier to list overseas, after China blocked the Meta-Manus deal
Beijing's tighter scrutiny of foreign capital forces groups to rethink ownership structures behind listings boom
Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise up to $2B at a $30B valuation, up from a $20B+ valuation in a May round
Moonshot AI is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the startup at $30 billion …
Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules
Moonshot AI has informed its investors it will revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for an initial public offering in Hong Kong …
Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot, raised ~$2B at a $20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm; Moonshot's ARR hit $200M in April 2026
Moonshot AI has raised about $2 billion in its latest funding round, signaling growing investor appetite for Chinese startups rivaling Silicon Valley's leaders.
Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation
Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising …
Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License
We are open sourcing our latest model, Kimi K2.6, featuring state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities.