Meet Yang Zhilin, the CEO and founder behind China's buzzy new Kimi K3 AI model
Yang Zhilin is the CEO and cofounder of Moonshot AI.Moonshot's Kimi K3 is the latest Chinese AI model to rattle Silicon Valley.Yang went to Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Meta and Google before returning to China.There's a founder making waves in the AI industry that's not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei.Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind the Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which seized Silicon Valley's attention this week.Kimi K3 is the latest buzzy open-weight model from China. Its coding and agentic capabilities rival those of leading American models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic and come at a much lower cost, marking a new milestone for China in the AI race.Who is Yang Zhilin?Yang was born in 1992 in Shantou, a city in China's Guangdong province.
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Yang Zhilin is the CEO and cofounder of Moonshot AI.Moonshot's Kimi K3 is the latest Chinese AI model to rattle Silicon Valley.Yang went to Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Meta and Google before returning to China.There's a founder making waves in the AI industry that's not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei.Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind the Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which seized Silicon Valley's attention this week.Kimi K3 is the latest buzzy open-weight model from China. Its coding and agentic capabilities rival those of leading American models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic and come at a much lower cost, marking a new milestone for China in the AI race.Who is Yang Zhilin?Yang was born in 1992 in Shantou, a city in China's Guangdong province. He attended Tsinghua University before earning a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, where he studied under prominent AI researchers Ruslan Salakhutdinov and William Cohen."He is absolutely brilliant," Salakhutdinov said of Yang in a post on X on Friday.
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- Yang Zhilin is the CEO and cofounder of Moonshot AI.Moonshot's Kimi K3 is the latest Chinese AI model to rattle Silicon Valley.Yang went to Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Meta and Google before returning to China.There's a founder making waves in the AI industry that's not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei.Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind the Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which seized Silicon Valley's attention this week.Kimi K3 is the latest buzzy open-weight model from China. Its coding and agentic capabilities rival those of leading American models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic and come at a much lower cost, marking a new milestone for China in the AI race.Who is Yang Zhilin?Yang was born in 1992 in Shantou, a city in China's Guangdong province.
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