GoKawiilMoonshot AI aims to double revenue to $2 billion by year-end
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg, roughly double its reported run rate in August. The push is fueled by strong adoption of its open-weight K3 model, which OpenRouter data shows generating up to 300 billion tokens daily, even as usage has dipped slightly in recent months.
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Moonshot's numbers remain far smaller than OpenAI's or Anthropic's, but they suggest open-weight models can still generate meaningful revenue despite thinner margins than closed systems. The growth target also arrives amid fresh controversy, with Anthropic accusing Moonshot of secretly routing hundreds of thousands of requests to Claude Opus and harvesting millions of its responses to train Kimi models.
- Moonshot AI wants to double revenue to $2B annualized by year-end.
- K3 model usage remains high, generating up to 300B tokens daily on OpenRouter.
- Anthropic alleges Moonshot improperly used Claude Opus outputs to train its models.
Source: techcrunch.com — Russell Brandom, 2026-09-11
Published there as: “Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue”
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