I just googled "Moonshot AI" and got the information right away. Not sure what's confusing about it, the only other "Moonshot" I know of is Alphabet's Moonshot Factory.
> This company is far from "open source", it's had over $1B USD in funding.
Since when does open source mean you can't make any money? Mozilla has a total of $1.2B in assets. The company isn't open source nor claiming to be.
This model was released under a "modified MIT-license" [0]:
> Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display "Kimi K2" on the user interface of such product or service.
Which sounds pretty fair to me.
[0] - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking/blob/main...
Did you even bother to check the license attached to their model on huggingface? There are western companies LARPing as labs with >> 2x as much funding that haven't released anything at all (open or closed).
Okay, I'm sorry but I have to say wtf named this thing. Moonshot AI is such an overused generic name that I had to ask an LLM which company this is. This is just Alibaba hedging their Qwen model.
This company is far from "open source", it's had over $1B USD in funding.