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Moonshot AI's $2 Billion Round at $20 Billion Valuation: Kimi K2.6, the Open Weight Surge, and the Twenty Billion Dollar Paradox Reshaping Global Frontier Competition - May 10, 2026 Beijing's Moonshot AI just closed a roughly two billion dollar round at a twenty billion dollar valuation, led by Meituan's Long Z Investments with Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile, and CPE Yuanfeng. Rick Spair and Laura unpack what the funding, the Kimi K2.6 model, and the open weight strategy mean for the closed frontier labs and the broader global AI ecosystem. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. Send us fan mail: https://dxtoday.com/contact #AI #MoonshotAI #Kimi #OpenSource #ChinaAI