Message 1 January, reported later by LatePost, AI Tool Kimi THE DARK SIDE OF THE DEVELOPER'S MOON HAS RECENTLY COMPLETED 500 MILLION DOLLARS, ROUND CFinancingWITH $150 MILLION IN IDGS AND OVERSUBSCRIBED BY OLDER SHAREHOLDERS SUCH AS ALI, TATE AND WANG HYEWEN, THE POST-INVESTMENT VALUATION AMOUNTED TO $4.3 BILLION。
Later, according to LatePost, the dark side of the month of the AI tool Kimi developer recently completed a $500 billion C round of financing, with $150 million in IDGs, oversubscribed by older shareholders like Ali, Tent, Wang Wei Wen and others, with a post-investment valuation of $4.3 billion。
It was known that less than two months had elapsed since the financing took place, that the first-level market response had exceeded expectations and that Wang Hyewen ' s cumulative investment in the dark side of the moon had reached $7 million。
In an internal letter issued yesterday, CEO Yang Shihzheng, the founder of the dark side of the month, revealed that the company currently has over RMB 10 billion in cash on its books. The scale of this funding is not less than the post-IPO intelligence spectrum and Mini Max, which means that the dark side of the moon needs no rush to seek an IPO in the short term。
YANG SHIH-HYUN INDICATED THAT C-WHEEL FINANCING WOULD BE USED PRIMARILY FOR A MORE RADICAL EXPANSION OF GRAPHIC CARD RESOURCES TO ACCELERATE TRAINING AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE K3 MODEL。
In terms of progress in commercialization, Yang Shizuku revealed that global fee-paying users grew at a rate of 171 TP3T over the months. Since November last year, driven by the K2 Thinking mega-model, the dark side of the moon abroad, the API income has increased fourfold。
At present, the company ' s strategic focus is on the Agent layer, the logical layer and the complex mission chain of productivity bias, such as in-depth research, data analysis and so forth, deliberately avoiding the direction of life entertainment and multi-mode generation。
In response to planning for 2026, Yang Shizuku set out a number of key objectives:
The K3 model will follow the world front at the pre-training level and will upgrade equivalent FLOPs by at least one order of magnitude through technological improvements and Scaling
The pursuit of "smart caps" on products rather than absolute numbers of users is committed to creating more productive value。
In addition, the company will significantly increase the option buy-back line and double this year ' s incentive plan budget to last year。