Moonshot AI
FeaturedKimi — China's most advanced AI assistant.
Founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin and a team of AI researchers from Tsinghua University and top AI labs, Moonshot AI has rapidly become one of China's most important AI companies. Its flagship product Kimi — a powerful long-context AI assistant — has garnered tens of millions of users across China for its ability to read and reason over extremely long documents, websites, and research papers. This week in May 2026, Moonshot AI announced a $2 billion funding round led by Meituan's venture arm at a $20 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to nearly $4 billion in just six months. Moonshot's latest model K2.6 has become one of the most-used AI models in China with annual revenue now exceeding $200 million.
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Yang Zhilin
Founder / CEO
Yang Zhilin is the founder and CEO of Moonshot AI. A PhD graduate from Carnegie Mellon University with deep expertise in natural language processing and transformers, he previously conducted research at Google Brain. Yang is the inventor of the Transformer-XL architecture, a foundational advancement in long-context language modeling that directly underpins Kimi's exceptional ability to process extremely long documents. He returned to China to found Moonshot AI and has built it into one of the country's most respected and best-funded AI companies.
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