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Moonshot AI valuation, funding and revenue
Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based AI lab that makes the Kimi chatbot and the Kimi family of AI models.
Figures checked October 2026. Each one links to its source.
What is Moonshot AI's valuation?
Moonshot AI was valued at $50B in October 2026, according to press reports (qz.com). A private company's valuation is set when it raises money, so it can be well out of date between rounds.
That puts Moonshot AI at number 1 of the 51 AI unicorns we profile, ranked by valuation.
How much funding has Moonshot AI raised?
No public source states Moonshot AI's total funding. The rounds below are the ones we could confirm; there may be others. The latest round was a Pre-IPO round in October 2026, according to press reports.
| Date | Round | Amount | Led by | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Pre-IPO round | Not disclosed | – | – | qz.com (reported) |
| July 2026 | Venture round | $3.5B | National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund | $35B | news.bloomberglaw.com (reported) |
| May 2026 | Venture round | $2B | – | $20B | scmp.com (reported) |
| December 2025 | Series C | $500M | IDG Capital | $4.3B | technode.com (reported) |
What is Moonshot AI's revenue?
- $1B ARR in October 2026, according to press reports (qz.com).
- $300M ARR in June 2026, according to press reports (qz.com).
- $200M ARR in April 2026, according to press reports (techrepublic.com).
ARR (annual recurring revenue) is the yearly value of current subscriptions; annualized revenue scales a recent month or quarter up to a year. Neither is audited revenue. See what ARR is.
Moonshot AI website traffic
Estimated monthly visits to moonshot.ai across all channels, rounded. +36% over three months to August 2026.
- May 2026850K
- June 2026610K
- July 20261.6M
- August 20261.2M
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About Moonshot AI
- Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based AI lab that makes the Kimi chatbot and the Kimi family of AI models. qz.com
- Founded in 2023. qz.com
- Headquarters: Beijing, China. qz.com
- Founders: Yang Zhilin. wsj.com
- October 2026: Quartz, citing Bloomberg's unnamed sources, reports Moonshot closed its final private round at roughly $50 billion and is targeting a Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027, possibly raising up to $5 billion. The round size was not reported, so the round is listed without an amount. The IPO plan and the $2 billion ARR target for December are plans, not facts. The $1 billion ARR is Bloomberg's figure as relayed by Quartz. qz.com
- Valuation conflict for the summer 2026 round: Bloomberg (via Bloomberg Law) reports a $3.5 billion raise at a $35 billion valuation, with the state-backed National AI Industry Investment Fund among the lead investors; Quartz describes the summer round as valuing Moonshot at $31.5 billion. The two fit $31.5 billion pre-money plus $3.5 billion new money, but no source states that explicitly. news.bloomberglaw.com
- May 2026 round: SCMP reports about $2 billion raised at a valuation of more than $20 billion, from investors including Meituan's venture arm and China Mobile, taking the total raised over the previous six months to $3.9 billion; TechCrunch's headline gives $2B at $20B. scmp.com
- An early-2026 extension round is not listed: Bloomberg (February 2026) reported Moonshot targeting a $10 billion valuation in an expansion of the $500 million round. A Yahoo Finance article says a $700 million round at $10 billion closed in January 2026 and a $1 billion round at $18 billion in May, which conflicts with SCMP and TechCrunch on the May round. bloomberg.com
- December 2025 Series C: TechNode (citing LatePost) reports $500 million led by IDG Capital, which invested $150 million, with Alibaba, Tencent and Meituan co-founder Wang Huiwen also investing, at a $4.3 billion valuation. technode.com
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Sources
Checked on 9 October 2026. Traffic figures are third-party estimates, not company-reported numbers.
- https://qz.com/moonshot-ai-hong-kong-ipo-2027-50-billion-valuation-100626
- https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/moonshot-ai-yang-ceo-china-6f12ddbf
- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/chinas-moonshot-ai-passes-funding-goal-to-hit-35-billion-value
- https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3352751/kimi-developer-moonshot-ai-valued-us20b-it-navigates-chinas-new-ipo-rules
- https://technode.com/2025/12/31/idg-leads-500m-series-c-for-moonshot-ai-oversubscribed-by-alibaba-tencent/
- https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apac-china-moonshot-ai-ipo/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/china-ai-startup-moonshot-seeks-10-billion-value-in-new-funding