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title: "Moonshot AI seeks $30bn valuation, 7x jump in six months"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/moonshot-ai-seeks-30bn-valuation-7x-jump-in-six-months-zvlrwk1sn
source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/moonshot-ai-kimi-30-billion-valuation-china-ai-race
type: article
source: "The Next Web"
published: 2026-06-08T09:14:27.623Z
updated: 2026-06-08T09:17:55.279Z
tags: ["ai", "startup"]
reading_time: 4
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# Moonshot AI seeks $30bn valuation, 7x jump in six months

**[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking $2 billion in a new funding round at a $30 billion valuation — a seven-fold increase from its $4 billion valuation in December 2025. This is the company's third financing round in six months, bringing total fundraising to roughly $3.9 billion. Moonshot's ARR surpassed $200 million in April, doubling in under two months. The company is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO by restructuring its offshore VIE setup. China's AI startup landscape is consolidating rapidly, with DeepSeek seeking a $59 billion valuation and Zhipu AI at $80 billion, though all remain far behind US peers like OpenAI ($850B) and Anthropic ($965B). The aggressive fundraising pace reflects both the high cost of training frontier models under US chip export controls and the desire to maximize valuations before IPO windows open.

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