Beijing Moonshot AI Technology Co., Ltd.
北京月之暗面科技有限公司
Long-context Large Language Models, Conversational AI|Room 1102, Building 1, No. 5, Shangdi East Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Certifications
- National-level Unicorn Enterprise (2025, 2026)
- Provincial-level 'Specialized and Sophisticated' (专精特新) SME
- Deep Synthesis Service Algorithm Filing (CAC China)
Main Products & Services
A leading Chinese AI 'unicorn' and one of the 'AI Tigers' of China, recognized for pioneering long-context processing and high-performance open-weight models.
Core Products
- Kimi (AI Chatbot/Assistant)
- Kimi Work (AI Productivity Workspace)
- Moonshot LLM Series (Kimi K1.5, K2, K2.5, K2.6, K3)
- Kimi Open Platform (API services for developers)
- Kimi Researcher
- Kimi Code
Service Areas
- Generative AI
- Natural Language Processing
- Multimodal AI (Text, Audio, Image, Video)
- Enterprise AI Solutions
- Agentic AI and Coding Tools
Industry-leading context window (from 128k to 2 million tokens), 2.8 trillion parameter scale (Kimi K3), native multimodal capabilities, and agentic reasoning for complex knowledge work.
Company Information
- Location
- 13th Floor, Building 1, JD Technology Building, No. 76 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
- Established
- March 2023 (Officially registered April 17, 2023)
- Registered Capital
- 2,238,467 RMB (Domestic entity)
- Business Scope
- Software development; AI basic and application software development; Technical services, consulting, and transfer; Computer system services.
- Production Capacity
- Not applicable (Software/AI Research Lab); operates massive GPU clusters for model training and inference.
- Financial Overview
- Valuation estimated between $30 billion and $50 billion; Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) reached $300 million in June 2026; backed by Alibaba, Tencent, HongShan, and Meituan.
Mission: 'To seek the optimal conversion from energy to intelligence.' Inspired by Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon'.
Major Projects & Clients
Notable Projects
- Kimi K3: The world's first open 3T-class model
- Project Moonshot (Singapore): Generative AI testing toolkit collaboration
- Kimi Explore Edition: AI-powered autonomous search
Key Clients
- Tens of millions of monthly professional users
- Enterprise developers via Kimi Open Platform
- Global open-source community (Hugging Face, GitHub)
Industry Applications
- Software Development
- Academic Research
- Content Creation
- Enterprise Productivity
- Education
Team & R&D
Team size: Approximately 300 employees (as of 2026)
R&D capabilities: World-class R&D team composed of experts from Google, Meta, and Tsinghua University, focusing on AGI and foundation models.
Technical expertise: Large Language Model (LLM) architecture, long-context window optimization, reinforcement learning, and multimodal agentic systems.
Management
- Yang Zhilin (Founder/CEO, ex-Google Brain, Meta AI, PhD from CMU)
- Zhou Xinyu (Co-founder)
- Wu Yuxin (Co-founder)
Overseas Layout
Production Bases
- Not Applicable: As an AI software company, Moonshot AI does not maintain physical production factories.
Sales Offices
- Singapore: MOONSHOT AI PTE. LTD. (UEN: 202326494K), located at Sunshine Plaza, 190 Middle Road, Singapore 188979. Serves as the international hub for global operations and research collaboration.
Investment Companies
- Moonshot AI Ltd — Cayman Islands: Palm Grove Unit 4, 265 Smith Road, George Town, Grand Cayman. Historically used as the offshore parent entity under the VIE structure.
Global strategy: Expanding through the release of high-performance open-weight models (Kimi K2/K3) to the global developer community via Hugging Face and GitHub. Currently dismantling offshore VIE structures to facilitate a planned IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Overseas revenue: Information not found (Total ARR is $300M, but specific overseas split is not public)