Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI is dedicated to achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by converting energy into intelligence through long-context, multimodal foundation models.
At a Glance
- Developers
- Enterprises
- Content Creators
- Research Institutions
AI Tools by Moonshot AI
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Kimi Code CLI
Terminal AI Coding Agent
Kimi
Agentic AI Workspace Platform
Kimi Claw
Cloud Hosted AI Agent Platform
Kimi Code
AI Coding Assistant
Discussions
The Price of Intelligence Is Collapsing. OpenAI and Anthropic Should Be Worried.
The conventional wisdom in enterprise AI has been that you pay a premium for the best model, and the best models come from OpenAI and Anthropic. Kimi K3 does not disprove that entirely, but it puts a hard expiration date on how long that premium can hold. This is not primarily a story about benchmar…
Latest News
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the world's largest open-weight model with 2.8T parameters.
China's Moonshot AI raises $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation.
Kimi K2.6 launched with focus on advanced open-source coding capabilities.
Moonshot AI valuation rises by $500 million as investors flock to Chinese AI startups.
Products & Services
A consumer-facing AI assistant available on web, iOS, and Android, known for its long context window and file processing capabilities.
Developer platform providing API access to Kimi models (K3, K2.6, K2.5) with features like context caching and tool calling.
A command-line tool for developers to interact with Kimi's coding capabilities directly from the terminal.
A store and plugin system for specialized AI agents and professional tools built on top of Kimi.
Market Position
Positions itself as a leading 'AI Tiger' in China, competing directly with OpenAI and Anthropic in terms of model performance and context length, while championing open-weight strategies for high-parameter models.
Leadership
Founders
Yang Zhilin (杨植麟)
CEO and co-founder. PhD from Carnegie Mellon University; previously at Google Brain and Meta AI (FAIR); co-founded Recurrent AI; lead author of Transformer-XL and XLNet.
Zhou Xinyu (周新宇)
Co-founder. Previously a key researcher at Face++ (Megvii) heading its research team; Tsinghua University alumnus.
Wu Yuxin (吴育昕)
Co-founder. Former researcher at Meta AI (FAIR); creator of Detectron2 and Tensorpack; PhD from CMU.
Zhang Yutao (张宇韬)
Co-founder and CTO. Tsinghua University PhD; co-founder of Recurrent AI; expert in knowledge graphs and data mining.
Executive Team
Yang Zhilin
CEO and Founder
Expert in foundation models, formerly Google and Meta.
Zhang Yutao
CTO
Co-founder of Recurrent AI, expert in AMiner technology.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founded by Yang Zhilin and Tsinghua classmates who were formerly researchers at Google and Meta. The team aimed to build 'China's OpenAI' with a focus on long-context processing (the 'Dark Side of the Moon' philosophy).
Business Model
Revenue Model
B2C subscription model (Kimi+) and B2B API usage fees (token-based).
Pricing Tiers
Standard access to Kimi assistant.
Higher rate limits and priority access to latest models.
API pricing from $0.60 to $3.00 per 1M input tokens.
Target Markets
- Developers
- Enterprises
- Content Creators
- Research Institutions
- Long-document analysis
- Complex software engineering
- AI-native content creation
- Knowledge management
- DefenAge
- Various Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
- Cloudflare