# Moonshot AI **Industry:** Large Language Models **Type:** Private **Founded:** 2023 **Headquarters:** Beijing, China **Website:** https://platform.moonshot.ai *Chinese AI company developing Kimi chatbot and advanced language models with trillion-parameter architectures* ## Latest AI News ### Kimi K2 Release Outperforms GPT-4 in Key Benchmarks **Date:** 07/14/2025 Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model that significantly outperforms GPT-4 and Claude in coding benchmarks. On LiveCodeBench, K2 achieved 53.7% accuracy versus GPT-4.1's 44.7%, and scored 97.4% on MATH-500 compared to GPT-4.1's 92.4%. The model is available for free and costs only 15 cents per million input tokens via API. ## Overview Moonshot AI has emerged as one of China's leading "AI Tiger" companies, developing the Kimi chatbot and advanced large language models. The company focuses on creating state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts architectures that deliver superior performance while maintaining cost efficiency and open accessibility. ## Key Products/Services - Kimi K2: 1 trillion parameter MoE model with 32B active parameters - Kimi chatbot: Capable of processing up to 2 million Chinese characters - Kimi-K2-Base: Foundation model for researchers and custom solutions - Kimi-K2-Instruct: Post-trained model for chat and agentic experiences - API services for enterprise integration - Multilingual language processing capabilities ## Recent Developments - Released Kimi K2 model outperforming GPT-4 (July 2025) - Achieved superior coding and mathematical reasoning performance - Kimi became 3rd most-used chatbot in China (November 2024) - Expanded from 200K to 2M Chinese character context window - Released under modified MIT license for broad accessibility - Offering competitive API pricing at $0.15 per million tokens ## Financial Information - Valuation: $3.3 billion (August 2024) - Latest funding: $300 million (August 2024, led by Tencent and Gaorong Capital) - Previous funding: $1 billion (February 2024, led by Alibaba Group at $2.5B valuation) - Market position: 3rd most-used chatbot in China ## Leadership - Co-founders: Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin - Founded: March 2023 ## Competitive Landscape - Main competitors: OpenAI, Anthropic, Alibaba (Qwen), Baidu, ByteDance - Market position: Leading Chinese AI model developer, strong technical performance - Differentiators: Ultra-long context windows, superior coding performance, cost efficiency ## Perplexity Queries ### Latest Company News [Summarize the latest news about Moonshot AI Kimi models, focusing on recent developments and announcements. Include information from reputable sources such as news articles and press releases. Provide a list with sources and summaries for each piece of news.](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/summarize-the-latest-news-about-moonshot-ai-kimi-models-focusing-on-recent-developments-and-announcements-include-information-from-reputable-sources-such-as-news-articles-and-press-releases-provide-a-list-with-sources-and-summaries-for-each-piece-of-news) ### Industry AI News [Latest AI news for Moonshot AI and the Chinese Large Language Models industry. Provide a list of recent AI-related developments, initiatives, or products from Moonshot AI and other companies in the Chinese Large Language Models industry. Include sources and brief summaries for each item.](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/latest-ai-news-for-moonshot-ai-and-the-chinese-large-language-models-industry-provide-a-list-of-recent-ai-related-developments-initiatives-or-products-from-moonshot-ai-and-other-companies-in-the-chinese-large-language-models-industry-include-sources-and-brief-summaries-for-each-item) ## Tags #chinese-ai #language-models #private #coding-ai #chatbot --- *Last Updated: 2025-08-02*