Moonshot AI

Chinese AI lab known for the Kimi model family. In the vision-language space, produced Kimi-VL which introduced MoonViT as a native-resolution vision encoder.

Key contributions

  • Kimi-VL (April 2025) — MLLM with MoonViT encoder; arXiv:2504.07491
  • MoonViT-SO-400M — standalone vision encoder released on HuggingFace (MIT license)

See also