An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
Frontier lab
Maker of the Kimi chatbot and Kimi K-series long-context models. Raised ~$2B at a >$20B valuation in May 2026 in a Meituan-led round, becoming China's best-funded LLM startup.
| Name | Moonshot AI |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Kimi |
| Space | Frontier lab |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Latest valuation | $20B |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | Beijing |
| Founders | Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin |
| Website | https://www.moonshot.ai |
| Careers | — |
| — | |
| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | $20B | reported |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | added | Moonshot AI added to tracker Latest valuation: $20B. | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Thomson Reuters + Imperial College London Frontier AI Research Lab | — | 2025 |
| Anthropic | $965B | 2021 |
| OpenAI | $852B | 2015 |
| xAI | $250B | 2023 |
| SSI (Safe Superintelligence) | $32B | 2024 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | $12B | 2025 |
| Ineffable Intelligence | $5.1B | 2025 |
| Ricursive Intelligence | $4B | 2025 |