Yang Zhi
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 holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and is known for his foundational contributions to natural language processing, including co-authoring the Transformer-XL and XLNet papers. He has led Moonshot AI's development of long-context language models and presented the Kimi technical roadmap, including the MuonClip optimizer and Attention Residuals architecture, at major industry conferences such as NVIDIA GTC.
“At GTC and other venues, Yang Zhiling [Kimi] has consistently presented their Muon optimization work — the Moonlight version.”
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