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Moonshot AI
Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 models.
| Type | Frontier labs |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Yang Zhilin |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Website | moonshot.ai |
Moonshot AI research
11 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with Moonshot AI (China) in the last 12 months. The most cited:
- Mooncake: A KVCache-centric Disaggregated Architecture for LLM Serving15 Nov 2025 · 34 citations
- ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning14 Mar 2026 · 2 citations
- Next Level Agent28 Sep 2026 · 0 citations
- Reviewing Only 1/10 of Submissions: Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Discovery for Approach-Aware LLM Grading19 Jun 2026 · 0 citations
- Metastable Propositional Algebra: The finite-drive deformation of Boolean structure — a structural reading and a dynamical reading23 May 2026 · 0 citations
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution Moonshot AI (China), read 2 Nov 2026.
Moonshot AI models
Latest releases
- moonshotai/Kimi-K313 Jun 2026
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code11 Jun 2026
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.614 Apr 2026
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.51 Jan 2026
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking4 Nov 2025
- moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base30 Oct 2025
Most downloaded
- moonshotai/Kimi-K3781,702 downloads (30 days)
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5407,890 downloads (30 days)
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct313,181 downloads (30 days)
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6246,535 downloads (30 days)
- moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct95,666 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation moonshotai, read 2 Nov 2026.
Moonshot AI: quick answers
Who founded Moonshot AI?
Moonshot AI was founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin.
People at Moonshot AI
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