China s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets
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Moonshot's annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage.
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Image Credits: Raul Ariano/Bloomberg (opens in a new window) / Getty Images AI China Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets Kate Park 6:44 AM PDT · May 7, 2026 Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage of interest from those who don t mind a performance hit in exchange for cheap inference. And investors are taking notice.
Moonshot AI , the Beijing-based AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models, has raised about $2 billion at a valuation of $20 billion, according to a post by Huafeng Capital, which advised some investors who participated in the round.
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