Yang Zhilin
Co-founder & CEO of Moonshot AI
Researcher Google Brain; PhD CMU NLP; Tsinghua undergrad
About Yang
Yang Zhilin co-founded Moonshot AI in 2023, the lab behind the Kimi consumer chat app and the Kimi K2 open-weights model. Previously a researcher at Carnegie Mellon and Google. Moonshot is one of China's most-watched AI labs alongside DeepSeek and Zhipu.