16 verified stories covering Moonshot AI, product updates and industry developments.
OpenAI says it broke up a coordinated attempt to extract protected reasoning data and linked a core cluster to Moonshot AI, the same week Kimi K3 entered its Codex enterprise channel.
Moonshot AI launched Kimi Code Desktop on Sept 21 with a GUI for its coding agent, while a Sept 18 hands-on piece revealed model and pricing details the launch post left out.
Moonshot AI swapped Kimi Code to K2.8 Preview under the same model ID, adding 1M-token context for all tiers and revising permission rules for risky commands.
Moonshot AI has confidentially filed an A1 with HKEX while negotiating a new funding round at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, likely its last before going public.
Moonshot AI has reportedly closed more than $3.5 billion in F-round financing at a $35 billion post-money valuation after opening Kimi K3 weights.
UK AISI and US CAISI put Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 through cyber benchmarks, finding strong general-model momentum but a clear gap on exploit chains.
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1M-token context window and published API pricing, while the open-weight proof still depends on weights and model cards.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code with a HighSpeed mode, strong self-reported tool-use scores and a much lower output price than Claude Opus 4.8.
Moonshot's desktop agent runs on local files, logged-in browsers and scheduled tasks, targeting users who cannot move sensitive data to the cloud.
Moonshot open-sources Kimi K2.7-Code for AI coding.
Kimi’s maker is reportedly raising $2 billion after ARR doubled from March to April and its K2 line moved from chat toward agents.
Moonshot AI is already discussing another round that could lift its valuation from $20 billion to $30 billion, with Kimi turning open-source model performance into a financing story.
Meituan-backed investors have pushed Kimi maker Moonshot AI to a $20 billion valuation, testing how far China's model-company pricing can run.
Moonshot AI has raised $2 billion at a $20 billion-plus valuation, putting Kimi at the center of China’s race for open-source large models and a possible Hong Kong listing.
Moonshot AI released the full production-grade Kimi K2.6 model, which scored 54.0 on HLE-Full, surpassing closed-source models Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4. The 1-trillion-parameter MoE model activates only 32B parameters per inference and supports up to 300 parallel sub-agents.
Moonshot AI has rolled out the K2.6 code preview to all Kimi Code subscribers, offering deeper reasoning chains, improved multi-step agent planning, and more reliable tool calls at a fraction of the cost of competing models.