# Moonshot AI

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/moonshot-ai

- Industry: Internet
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Website: www.moonshot.cn
- Total disclosed funding: $3.8B
- Latest round: Series D (May 6, 2026)
- Investors on record: 14

## About

Based in Beijing, China and Co-founded by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin in 2023, Beijing Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd., trading as Moonshot AI, operates as a technology company that focuses on the research and development of general multimodal large models. The company's CEO, Zhilin Yang, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and used to work for companies such as Facebook and Google. Its team members participated in the research and development of large models such as Google Gemini, Google Bard, Pangu NLP, and Wudao. In October 2023, Moonshot AI launched Kimi, which is a smart assistant product. In July 2026, it raised over USD 3.5 billion in a series F funding round.
The company is mainly engaged in the research and development of the next generation of cross-modal large models. It invented Rope relative position encoding and group normalization. Its main product is the Kiwi intelligent assistant, which is an artificial intelligence chat tool. It supports the input of 200,000 Chinese characters, with functions such as intelligent dialogue and text generation.
The company generates revenue from the commercialization of its general multimodal large models and artificial intelligence chat tools.
The company has started the series G funding round with the pre-investment valuation rising to $50 billion, this round will also be its Pre-IPO funding round.

## Funding rounds

- Series D, May 6, 2026, $2B — CPE Funds Management, T- Capital, Long Z Investment, Zhongyi Guotou Innovation Investment Management, China Mobile Hechuang Capital
- Series C, Dec 31, 2025, $500M — IDG Capital, Alibaba Group, Tencent Investment
- Series B, Feb 19, 2024, $1B — Alibaba Group, Meituan, Inc., HSG, Xingin Information Technology(Shanghai), Monolith Capital
- Angel, Jun 12, 2023, $281M — Capital Today, ZhenFund, HSG, Monolith Capital

## Investors

- Capital Today (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/capital-today) — Angel
- ZhenFund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/zhenfund) — Angel
- HSG (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hsg) — Angel, Series B
- Monolith Capital — Angel, Series B
- Alibaba Group — Series B, Series C
- Meituan, Inc. — Series B
- Xingin Information Technology(Shanghai) — Series B
- IDG Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/idg-capital) — Series C
- Tencent Investment — Series C
- CPE Funds Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/cpe-funds-management) — Series D
- T- Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/t-capital) — Series D
- Long Z Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/long-z-investment) — Series D
- Zhongyi Guotou Innovation Investment Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/zhongyi-guotou-innovation-investment-management) — Series D
- China Mobile Hechuang Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/china-mobile-hechuang-capital) — Series D