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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

    Leadership

    Yang Zhilin, Founder and chief executive. Yang Zhilin is the founder and chief executive of Moonshot AI, a China-based company that makes the Kimi AI models.

    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

    WYDE Newsroom has published 3 articles about Moonshot AI, from Jul 17, 2026 to Jul 24, 2026. Moonshot AI is the subject of 3 stories. The most recent is The White House Accuses Moonshot of Distilling Anthropic's Fable as Treasury Weighs Sanctions.

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    The White House Accuses Moonshot of Distilling Anthropic's Fable as Treasury Weighs Sanctions

    Michael Kratsios says the Chinese lab ran large-scale distillation against U.S. AI models and tapped banned Nvidia GB300 chips in Thailand, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says sanctions and Entity List designations are on the table.

    Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

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    Jul 18, 2026 · 6 min read · Subject of the story

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

    China's Moonshot AI says Kimi K3 trails only the top two US frontier models, and it is giving the weights away

    Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    Reported alongside Moonshot AI

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