Moonshot AI
Kimi maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue
🧒 Discovery
The Chinese company behind the Kimi robot dreams of earning twice as much money as today before the year ends, even though it is still much smaller than its big American rivals.
📰 Essential
Chinese company Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi K3 model, wants to double its annualized revenue to $2 billion by the end of 2026, even as usage has recently dipped slightly.
🔬 Expert
Kimi K3 generates roughly 300 billion tokens a day on OpenRouter, but Moonshot's revenue remains tiny next to OpenAI's $40 billion and Anthropic's $65 billion. Moonshot is betting on an open, low-margin model rather than a closed one. The story is also clouded by Anthropic's accusation that Moonshot collected more than 23 million Claude responses to train Kimi.