Releases
63 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
August 20241
Aug 5, 2024
Moonshot reaches $3.3B valuationFunding round
Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.
March 20243
Mar 18, 2024Kimi tests two-million-character contextFeature update
Kimi opened a beta supporting up to two million Chinese characters of context.
Mar 2024Mooncake serving architecture releasedResearch paper
Moonshot released Mooncake, a KV-cache-centric architecture for disaggregated large-model serving.
Mar 2024Moonshot publishes open research infrastructureResearch paper
Moonshot began publishing open systems research for efficient long-context model training and serving.
February 20241
Feb 19, 2024Alibaba-led financing values Moonshot at $2.5BFunding round
Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.
January 20241
2024Kimi mobile app releasedProduct launch
Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.
November 20234
Nov 2023moonshot-v1-128k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 128K-context text model through its API.
Nov 2023moonshot-v1-32k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed a 32K-context text model through its API.
Nov 2023Moonshot API opens to developersAPI release
Moonshot introduced developer API access to its language models.
Nov 2023moonshot-v1-8k API model releasedModel release
Moonshot exposed an 8K-context text model through its API.
October 20232
Oct 9, 2023Kimi Chat releasedProduct launch
The web-based Kimi conversational assistant became publicly available with long-context document capabilities.
Oct 9, 2023Kimi platform launchesProduct launch
Moonshot launched Kimi as a long-context AI assistant for the Chinese market.
March 20231
Mar 2023Moonshot AI foundedNews
Moonshot AI was founded in Beijing by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin to develop frontier foundation models.