# Moonshot AI

[https://timesof.ai/platform/moonshot](https://timesof.ai/platform/moonshot)

Beijing-based frontier lab behind the Kimi model family—pushing open-weight scale, long-horizon coding agents, and competitive pricing against U.S. closed models.

Moonshot AI builds the Kimi series of large multimodal models for coding, knowledge work, and agentic workflows, with a strategy of open weights, large MoE scale, and inference pricing below Anthropic and OpenAI flagships.

## Coverage

- [Six Chinese Open-Weight Models Carry a Blackwell Fingerprint, an Independent Weight Analysis Finds, but It Cannot Say Where the Chips Were](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/blackwell-fingerprints-deepseek-moonshot-minimax-ant-open-weights-unemployment-labs) — An Unemployment Labs analysis says DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group models were initialized on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Location and legality unproven.
- [Cisco Talos Finds an Infostealer That Asks an LLM to Rank Each Victim's Worth, and Fails Over When the Model Refuses](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/cisco-talos-volta-infostealer-llm-ranks-victims-refusal-fallback) — Cisco Talos says VOLTA sends stolen-data dossiers to Claude Opus 4.6, falling back to Kimi K2 and Gemini 2.5 Flash on refusal, to rank victims.
- [Moonshot Publishes Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights, a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Model With Cyber Training Data Removed](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/moonshot-kimi-k3-1-pro-weights-nov-4-cyber-data-removed) — Moonshot published Kimi K3.1 Pro weights on Hugging Face: 2.8T-parameter MoE, 104B active, 1M context, under a custom licence. Benchmarks self-reported.
- [China's Nine Leading AI Developers Published Model-Specific Safety Results for 3.6% of 857 Releases, SemiAnalysis Finds](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/semianalysis-china-ai-safety-disclosure-3-6pct) — SemiAnalysis: 31 of 857 releases by nine Chinese AI developers had published model-specific safety results; 9 at launch. No U.S. comparison in the report.
- [DeepSeek Nears an 80B-Yuan Round and Moonshot Closes at ~$50B as Both Line Up 2027 IPOs, Bloomberg Reports](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/deepseek-80b-yuan-moonshot-50b-pre-ipo-rounds) — Bloomberg: DeepSeek near at least 80B yuan (~$12B) with CATL, Tencent; had targeted ~500B-yuan valuation. Moonshot closed at ~$50B, HK IPO Q1 2027. Unconfirmed.
- [OpenAI Attributes a Reasoning-Extraction Cluster to Moonshot AI](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/openai-moonshot-adversarial-distillation) — OpenAI disrupted a July adversarial distillation campaign attempting to extract protected reasoning; core cluster linked to individuals associated with Moonshot AI. Company claim; no Moonshot comment yet.
- [Moonshot HK IPO Clock: Model Mindshare Into Public Capital](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/moonshot-ipo-hong-kong-six-months) — Moonshot seeks investor approval for a Hong Kong IPO within ~six months after Kimi K3—Bloomberg report, not a priced date.
- [Kimi K3: Near-Frontier Open Path—AA #3, Prices Under Sol/Fable](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/moonshot-kimi-k3-open-frontier) — Kimi K3 (2.8T, 1M context) API live, weights by Jul 27—AA #3 at 57; priced under Sol and Fable.
- [Kimi K3 #1 on Frontend Code Arena—Preference Proof Above Fable, Not Overall Crown](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/moonshot-kimi-k3-tops-arena-frontend-code) — Kimi K3 debuted first on Arena Frontend Code at 1679 points above Fable 5, according to its announcement reproduced by Tom’s Hardware.