Moonlight

Moonshot AI · 2025 · LLM · China

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Moonshot AI
C · CEO & Politics: Yang Zhilin — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2025
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Yang Zhilin (CEO/Founder)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT)
Q · AIDb Rating: 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 4/10 → 3.70
R · What Makes It Special: Mixture-of-experts model (16B total, 3B active) trained with the Muon optimizer, showing that Muon scales to large-model training. MIT license.
S · Stock / Status: Private ($35B valuation, Jul 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @Kimi_Moonshot
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from Moonshot AI, released 2025.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗

“Moonlight.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/moonshot-ai-moonlight.html