Kimi was developed by Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd., which was founded in March 2023.
In October last year, the Dark Side of the Moon launched Kimi in internal testing and was fully open to the public in November. It supports long contexts of 200,000 Chinese characters, equivalent to about 300,000 to 400,000 tokens, far exceeding the 100,000 of Claude2 and the 32,000 of GPT-4 at the time.
Dark Side of the Moon, English name Moonshot AI. Just like the side of the moon that always faces away from the earth, because it cannot be observed, it has aroused human's infinite imagination and desire to explore. For the Dark Side of the Moon, artificial intelligence is such a fascinating field.
Founders: Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin, Zhang Yutao.
CEO Yang Zhilin, born in the 1990s, likes rock music. He is a top student at Tsinghua University, and his grades have always been the top of the grade. He studied for his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University. He studied under Ruslan Salakhutdinov, head of Apple's AI research, and William Cohen, chief scientist at Google.
It is worth mentioning that Yang Zhilin's English name is Kimi.
Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin and Zhang Yutao, who worked with him, are also good. They have worked in large-scale model research and development in companies such as Kuangshi Technology, Google and Meta AI, and are also top students of Tsinghua University and Carnegie Mellon.
In February this year, Dark Side of the Moon completed a $1 billion financing, setting a record for a single financing of large models in China.