Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2023, best known for its Kimi AI assistant, which gained rapid adoption in China for its industry-leading long-context window support. The company focuses on building frontier large language models and agentic AI products, competing with domestic rivals like Baidu, ByteDance, and DeepSeek. In 2025, it released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts open model emphasizing coding and agentic reasoning capabilities.
Company Info
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Founders
- Yang Zhilin, Zhang Yuchen, Wu Yuxin
- Employees
- 500-1000
- Website
- https://www.moonshot.cn
- Status
- active
Funding
$1B+ total