{"id":147902,"date":"2026-03-15T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147902"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:00:25","slug":"china-ai-start-up-moonshot-snags-funds-at-us18-billion-valuation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147902","title":{"rendered":"China AI start-up Moonshot snags funds at US$18 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMoonshot AI is seeking to raise as much as US$1 billion in an expanded funding round that would value the start-up at about US$18 billion, more than quadrupling its valuation in just three months and underscoring growing interest in Chinese artificial intelligence developers racing to rival Silicon Valley leaders.<br \/>\nThe company behind the Kimi chatbot kicked off discussions for the latest round, people familiar with the matter said, after securing more than US$700 million earlier this year, which&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3346659\/china-ai-start-moonshot-snags-funds-us18-billion-valuation?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMoonshot AI is seeking to raise as much as US$1 billion in an expanded funding round that would value the start-up at about US$18&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}