Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, has raised approximately $3.5 billion in its latest funding round, including a $2 billion Series D led by Meituan's venture capital arm …
China's Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy, closing a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days and planning another targeting a valuation of as …
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is preparing to begin discussions in August on a final pre-IPO fundraising round at a valuation of as much as US$50 billion, capitalizing on the success of its Kimi K3 model…
Meituan's LongCat team released version 1.5 of its open-source talking-avatar generator LongCat-Video-Avatar, which replaces the Wav2Vec2 audio encoder with Whisper-Large-v3 and uses DMD2-based step d…
Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model, released July 16, scored 1,679 Elo on LMArena's Frontend Code Arena benchmark, beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 (1,631) and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, paused new subscriptions to its Kimi K3 model over the weekend of July 18-19 after daily sales surged at least sixfold following the mod…
Chinese tech firms including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor showcased AI agent-powered smartphones at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, pitching them as the future of mobile devices…
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model with a 1-million-token context window, at NVIDIA's GTC 2026, positioning it as a direct compe…
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin, 34, unveiled the Kimi K3 model on July 16, which topped the Arena Frontend Code Arena with a score of 1,679 and ranks first in six of seven frontend domains, while cha…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model that the company says is the largest open-weight AI system ever built, with an Elo …
Asian tech stocks fell on Friday after a tech rout on Wall Street, where the Nasdaq dropped 1.5% following a TSMC report that received a cool market reception despite beating profit expectations. Japa…
Moonshot AI is preparing to release Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2 trillion to 3 trillion parameters, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 pricing. The Beijing startup, valued at $20…
China's universities added 10,200 new undergraduate majors and canceled or suspended 12,200 others during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), according to China's Ministry of Education, as the…
NanoSASRec, an open-source project by developer eifuentes, provides a simplified implementation of Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation (SASRec) with 10 training scripts that progress from the ori…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an opera…
Chinese food-delivery company Meituan trained a 1.6-trillion-parameter language model, LongCat-2.0, using approximately 50,000 domestic AI chips without any NVIDIA GPUs. The model activates only 48 bi…
Alibaba shares surged up to 13.8% in Hong Kong on Wednesday after UBS and Jefferies projected the company's June-quarter revenue growth would accelerate to 9%, driven by strong AI demand and narrowing…
Chinese AI users are jailbreaking models like DeepSeek by claiming the year is 5022 and moral codes no longer apply, revealing a sophisticated prompt-engineering culture born from China's tightly cont…
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter open Mixture-of-Experts language model with a native 1-million-token context window, designed for agentic coding. The model activates about 48 bi…
China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that expand domestic platform regulation and add legal countermeasures to protect Chinese companies like Temu…