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Yang Zhilin

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Co-founder at Moonshot AI

Yang helped create Transformer-XL, which enabled language models to follow information across much longer passages, and XLNet, an influential approach to learning from text. He later founded Moonshot AI, which develops the Kimi family of assistants and open models.

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Current role
Co-founder 2023-present
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 24, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2650,24342,84735,451Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
50,243citations as of Jun 15, '26+14,792 since Aug 25, '25
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