Moonshot AI Pursues ~$2B Raise at a $30B Valuation Amid Dual Funding Rounds

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Moonshot AI, the Beijing developer behind the Kimi chatbot, is reportedly seeking up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation while separately finalizing another ~$2 billion round led by Meituan at a $20 billion valuation. The twin rounds underscore how aggressively well-capitalized Chinese labs are scaling as their open-weight models (Kimi K2.6 among them) become credible low-cost alternatives to US frontier APIs. For builders, sustained Chinese-lab funding is the supply side of the continuing price compression in open-weight coding and agentic models.