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Yang Zhilin

Founder of Moonshot AI, the lab behind Kimi.

b. 1992China杨植麟Founder & CEO, Moonshot AI

Co-authored Transformer-XL and XLNet during his CMU doctorate, then returned to Beijing and built Kimi into the long-context assistant that made Moonshot one of China's 'AI tigers'.

Known for
KimiTransformer-XLXLNet

2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 2023–now3 yrsMoonshot AIFounder & CEO
  2. 2016–20237 yrsRecurrent AICo-founder

0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.

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