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The usage signal cuts both ways. OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens generated daily by K3 models from Kimi-maker Moonshot AI, even as K3 usage figures have eased slightly in recent months.
The company is targeting $2 billion in annual revenue. Those two readings sit in tension.
Token volume at 300 billion a day is a meaningful signal of K3's footprint on OpenRouter's platform, and that footprint is the number that gives the revenue ambition a foundation.
The recent softening in K3 usage figures means the trajectory is moving in the opposite direction, however quietly. Moonshot AI has not attached a timeline to the $2 billion figure in available disclosure.
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