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Yang Zhilin
Moonshot AI · Large Language Model (LLM) Foundation
Yang Zhilin co-founded Moonshot AI in March 2023 with his Tsinghua bandmates. A Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon PhD graduate who interned at Google and Meta, his open-weight AI model Kimi K3 has garnered significant attention from Silicon Valley.
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