Moonshot AI (Kimi)
Beijing lab behind Kimi K2, China's long-context leader
Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba and Tencent, released Kimi K2 in 2025 — a ~1T-parameter open-weight MoE model that topped several agentic and coding benchmarks and became one of the most cited Chinese frontier models. Kimi is known for ultra-long context windows and aggressive open-weight releases that pressure Western closed labs. It is among the 'AI Tigers' of Chinese startups.
Flagship
Kimi K2 (open-weight MoE)
Backers
Alibaba, Tencent, HongShan
How it fits the stack
Moonshot AI (Kimi) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Moonshot AI (Kimi) in the AI stack. Moonshot AI (Kimi) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
- Moonshot AI (Kimi) —depends on→ Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
- Moonshot AI (Kimi) —designs→ Kimi K2
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