Moonshot AI’s Kimi Chatbot, China’s answer to ChatGPT, offers premium service for mass users


The Beijing-based company is offering six tiers of ‘top-up’ plans, ranging from 5.2 yuan for four days to 399 yuan for a year of ‘priority use’. In March, it claimed to be able to process up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt, up from 200,000 in a previous version. — SCMP

Moonshot AI’s Kimi Chatbot has started charging fees in return for faster responses, joining a growing list of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies testing the waters of profiting from mass users.

The chatbot, also known in Chinese as Yuezhi Anmian, launched the new features to offer users faster responses, Chinese media Jiemian News reported on Sunday.

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