Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue
Moonshot AI targets $2 billion annualized revenue by year-end on K3 open-weight demand; Anthropic alleges Kimi routed ~300,000 requests to Claude Opus.
Bloomberg reported that Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, double its August run rate, driven by its open-weight K3 model. OpenRouter data shows up to 300 billion tokens generated per day by K3 models, though usage has slipped slightly in recent months. Moonshot's projection remains far below reported figures for OpenAI ($40B) and Anthropic ($65B), with lower margins due to freely available weights. Anthropic this week alleged Kimi routed nearly 300,000 requests to Claude Opus and collected more than 23 million responses for use in Moonshot's training.
- Moonshot targets $2B annualized revenue by year-end, double its August run rate
- K3 open-weight models generate up to 300 billion tokens daily on OpenRouter
- Anthropic alleges Kimi routed ~300,000 requests to Claude Opus, collecting 23M+ responses
- Open-weight economics yield lower margins than closed-weight rivals
- Moonshot revenue still dwarfed by OpenAI ($40B) and Anthropic ($65B)
- Products
- Kimi K3Claude Opus
- Organizations
- Moonshot AIAnthropicOpenAIOpenRouterBloomberg
- Countries
- China
- AI models
- Kimi K3Claude Opus
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While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
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