Founder and CEO, Moonshot AI
Founder of Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi models.
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Yang Zhilin earned his PhD at Carnegie Mellon in 2019, was lead author of the Transformer-XL and XLNet papers and worked briefly at Google and Meta. He co-founded Moonshot AI in Beijing in 2023. Its Kimi K3, released with open weights in July 2026, ranked among the world's most capable models in independent evaluations.
Yang represents a new generation of Chinese founders competing head-on with US labs on capability while releasing their models openly.
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