Moonshot AI Reports 70% of B-End Revenue from APIs and Pauses New C-End Subscriptions
Moonshot AI announced that 70% of its business-to-business (B-end) revenue is generated from API calls and plans to launch the Kimi Hosted Agent platform. Additionally, the company has temporarily paused new consumer (C-end) subscriptions to prioritize compute resources for existing users following the launch of its Kimi K3 model. This shift highlights the strong commercial viability of LLM APIs in the enterprise market and underscores the severe compute resource constraints facing leading AI startups as they scale. The upcoming Kimi Hosted Agent platform will offer sandbox and harness capabilities with standardized APIs for tasks like PPT generation and investment research. The recently launched Kimi K3 model features 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1-million-token context window.
## BACKGROUND
Moonshot AI is a prominent Chinese artificial intelligence startup known for its Kimi chatbot, which gained popularity for handling long-context inputs. An "agent harness" refers to the software infrastructure wrapping around a large language model to manage execution, orchestration, and reliability.