Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI (Beijing Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd., abbreviated as "Moonshot AI") is a technology company that has made remarkable achievements in the field of Artificial Intelligence, especially in the research, development and application of big model technology.

Company Overview

• Established: April 17, 2023
• Headquarters location: Room 1602, 14th Floor, No. 27 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
• The industry you belong to: Science and technology promotion and application services
• Type of company: Limited liability company (invested or controlled by natural persons)

Founder & Team

• creator: Shilin Yang, Assistant Professor at Institute of Cross-Information Studies, Tsinghua University, and the most cited AI scholar in NLP natural language processing under 35 years old in China. Co-founders include Xinyu Zhou and Yuxin Wu.
• Team Strength: The team has a high talent density, with most core members coming from Tsinghua Department, per capita 90 years old, including members with over 10,000 citations on Scholar. The team has led and participated in the development of many classic large models at home and abroad, such as Google Bard, Google Gemini and so on.

Scope of business

• Main business: software development; software sales; artificial intelligence basic software development; artificial intelligence application software development; technical services, technical development, technical consulting, technical exchanges, technology transfer, technology promotion; computer system services; retail and wholesale of computer software, hardware and auxiliary equipment; information technology consulting services and so on.

Products & Services

• Main products: Kimi Chat intelligent assistant. Launched in October 2023, it is the smart assistant that supports the longest contextual input (initially supporting 200,000 kanji, later upgraded to 2 million words of lossless context) of any large model service that can be productively used in the global market.
• Functional Features::
  • Long Text Processing: Supports input and output of extremely long text, and is capable of handling multiple rounds of dialog, providing a continuous and smooth communication experience.
  • multimodal fusion: A breakthrough in fusing text, speech, images and other multimodal data into its large model, realizing a leap in cross-modal understanding and generation capabilities.
  • Personalized Service: Based on big data and advanced algorithms, it develops adaptive learning mechanisms so that the big model can learn and adjust in real time according to users' behavioral habits and preference changes, and provide more personalized services and content recommendations.
  • Wide range of application scenarios: For the consumer market, it has launched a number of innovative applications based on big model technology; at the same time, it provides customized big model solutions to enterprises and empowers a number of industries such as finance, healthcare and education.

History and Financing

• Financing History::
  • In June 2023, the company quickly obtained nearly 2 billion yuan of angel round financing from Sequoia China, Zhenge Fund and other well-known organizations at the early stage of its establishment.
  • At the end of December 2023, China Merchants China Fund also announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Minxing Investment Limited, had entered into a preferential share purchase agreement with Dark Side of the Moon to put up $10 million to invest in Dark Side of the Moon.
  • On February 19, 2024, Dark Side of the Moon completed its latest round of $1 billion financing, with a post-investment valuation of $2.5 billion. This round of financing was led by Alibaba, with the participation of Sequoia China, Meituan, Xiaohongshu, and other well-known investment institutions and Internet powerhouses.
  • As of May 2024, Dark Side of the Moon's latest valuation round was quoted at $3 billion.
• important event::
  • On October 9, 2023, the company announced a breakthrough in the field of "long text" with the launch of Kimi Chat, the first intelligent assistant that supports input of 200,000 Chinese characters.
  • In March 2024, Kimi Intelligent Assistant launched 2 million words of lossless contextualized internal testing and quickly became popular, at one point storming into the App Store's top five free version of the app.
  • In April 2024, the Dark Side of the Moon Moonshot-1 language modeling algorithm was filed and approved for use primarily in text generation scenarios.
  • In June 2024, the Dark Side of the Moon Moonshot Language Modeling Algorithm-2 filing was approved to serve primarily enterprise-side customers.

Company Honors and Influence

• Enterprise Honor::
  • In April 2024, Dark Side of the Moon was ranked 422nd on the 2024-Hurun Global Unicorn List with an enterprise valuation of RMB 18 billion.
  • Selected as one of the 2024 Forbes China Artificial Intelligence Technology Companies.
• Industry Influence: Dark Side of the Moon has achieved remarkable results in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the research, development and application of large model technology, and has become a leader in the industry. The launch of its Kimi intelligent assistant product not only demonstrates the company's leading edge in technology, but also promotes domesticAI macromodelThe development of the

To summarize, Dark Side of the Moon is a technology company with strong technical strength and wide influence in the field of artificial intelligence, focusing on the research, development and application of big model technology, and is committed to providing users with more convenient and powerful intelligent services.