{"id":1024724,"date":"2026-07-30T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024724"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:44:22","slug":"moonshot-ai-closes-3-5-billion-funding-round-to-hit-35-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/moonshot-ai-closes-3-5-billion-funding-round-to-hit-35-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonshot AI closes $3.5 billion funding round to hit $35 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing, riding the momentum from a breakthrough Kimi K3 model that sent ripples through Silicon Valley. <\/p>\n<p>The Beijing-based startup managed to secure far more than the $1 billion to $2 billion it initially targeted, people familiar with the matter said. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund \u2014 the state vehicle that\u2019s also a backer of DeepSeek\u2019s \u2014 was among the lead investors in the round, the people said, asking not to be identified to talk about private information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing, riding the momentum from a breakthrough Kimi K3 model that sent ripples through Silicon Valley. The Beijing-based startup managed to secure far more than the $1 billion to $2 billion it initially targeted, people familiar with the matter said. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund \u2014 the state vehicle that\u2019s also a backer of DeepSeek\u2019s \u2014 was among the lead investors in the round, the people said, asking not to be identified to talk about private information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024753,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024724\/revisions\/1024753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}