Moonshot AI aims for $2B revenue with Kimi model

moonshot ai, a leading chinese ai lab, has set a target of $2 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2026, doubling its reported revenue run rate for august. the company's kimi model, released this summer, has seen significant usage with 300 billion tokens generated daily on openrouter. despite controversy surrounding its model development practices, including allegations of model distillation from anthropic, moonshot's projections indicate potential for open-weight ai models.