The AI Read

Oct 6 2026

Moonshot closes final private round at about $50 billion, targets Q1 2027 Hong Kong IPO

MONEYOPEN

Original reporting

Bloomberg sources: raise target up to $5B at listing. Confidential HKEX filing was made in September; passed $300M in July.

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Moonshot AI

Open calls that touch this

A Chinese lab open-weights a model at 2.8T parameters or larger · 80%, resolves February 28th 2027
A second flagship API adopts time-of-day pricing · 55%, resolves February 17th 2027
Kimi K3 gets first-party hosting on a US hyperscaler cloud · 55%, resolves March 31st 2027
Moonshot files in Hong Kong by September 30th · 70%, resolves September 30th 2026
Moonshot prices its Hong Kong IPO by March 31st · 60%, resolves March 31st 2027

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