Yang Zhiling

Yang Zhilin is a Chinese computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded and serves as CEO of Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi AI assistant. He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where he co-authored the influential Transformer-XL and XLNet papers, and previously co-founded Recurrent AI. At Moonshot AI, he leads development of the Kimi family of large language models and has presented the company's technical roadmap, including optimizer innovations such as MuonClip, at NVIDIA's GTC conference.