#61Founder/CEOFoundation Models & LLMs

Zhilin Yang

Moonshot AI / Kimi

NLPLLMs

China

PhD in Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University (2019).

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Biography

Founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi models. Co-author of XLNet and Transformer-XL. Raised $2B at a $20B+ valuation in 2026.

Advanced autoregressive pre-training with XLNet and Transformer-XL architectures.

Liang Wenfeng

#59 · Foundation Models & LLMs

Robin Li

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Robin Li

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Yi Zeng

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