Beijing-based AI startup Moonshot AI is in talks for a new financing round that could value the company at up to $30 billion, according to multiple reports. Bloomberg says Moonshot AI is seeking as much as $2 billion, which would represent a major step up from prior valuations. The South China Morning Post reports the company is aiming to raise between US$1 billion and US$2 billion, and that the valuation target could be about 50% higher than its most recent round, which valued it at US$20 billion. The funding effort is described as the third financing round in about six months, reflecting China’s intensifying competition among AI developers. Tech outlets also note that Moonshot AI’s rapid valuation growth has occurred alongside other complications, including a legal dispute involving some investors, though those details are not the primary focus of the funding announcements. Moonshot AI is known for developing the Kimi chatbot, and the reports frame the current discussions as part of an effort to keep pace with rival AI labs and startups in China’s fast-moving generative AI sector.
Moonshot AI seeks up to $30 billion valuation in new funding talks
Beijing-based AI startup Moonshot AI is in talks for a new financing round that could value the company at up to $30 billion, according to multiple reports. Bloomberg says Moonshot AI is seeking as mu...
- Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, seeks a new funding round.
- Reports say Moonshot AI is targeting a valuation of up to $30 billion.
- It is reportedly raising between about $1 billion and $2 billion, depending on the final terms.
- The new round would be the third financing in roughly six months.
- Some reporting also links Moonshot AI’s rapid growth to an ongoing legal dispute involving key investors.
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. If the round closes at that target, it would mark a seven-fold increase in capitalisation since December, when the startup was valued at just […] This story continues at The Next Web
5 days agoMoonshot AI, the developer of China’s popular Kimi chatbot, is seeking to raise between US$1 billion and US$2 billion in a new funding round that could value the company at as much as US$30 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, as competition among the country’s leading artificial intelligence developers intensifies. The Beijing-based company was targeting a valuation roughly 50 per cent higher than the US$20 billion it achieved in its previous financing round, completed in...
5 days agoThis is the third round of financing in six months for the Beijing-based company, which is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese AI research labs.
5 days agoMoonshot AI is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the startup at $30 billion, initiating its third financing in six months to keep pace with rivals in China’s intensifying artificial intelligence race.
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