Domestic AI Model Kimi's Developer Has a Busy National Day

TapTechNews October 10th news, according to the revelation on the public account 'Young People in Big Factories' on October 8th, the development team of the domestic AI large model Kimi - Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd. has a team working overtime for seven days during the National Day holiday with triple wages, which is equivalent to one month in a week.

The revelation stated that the Dark Side of the Moon is preparing to launch a'very powerful function' related to in-depth thinking. Probably in the next version, there will be a 'Deep Inference' switch below the search entry, which can answer problems that simple search cannot solve and can even self-reflect, so they have been rushing the progress crazily during the National Day holiday.

The AI unicorn company Dark Side of the Moon was founded in March 2023 and launched the world's first intelligent assistant product Kimi that supports inputting 200,000 Chinese characters in October 2023. The core members of the founding team participated in the R & D of multiple large models such as Google Gemini, Google Bard, Pangu NLP, and Enlightenment.

On May 21 this year, there was news that the Dark Side of the Moon is undergoing a new round of financing, and the valuation quote has reached 3 billion US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 21.241 billion yuan).

On May 24, Alibaba's financial report showed that the company invested a total of about 800 million US dollars (currently about 5.664 billion yuan) in the Dark Side of the Moon in fiscal year 2024 and purchased about 36% of the equity as a preferred stock investment in the Dark Side of the Moon.

In August this year, there was also news that Tencent participated in the 300 million US dollars financing of the Dark Side of the Moon, which increased the latter's valuation to 3.3 billion US dollars (currently about 23.365 billion yuan).