| Known as | Chinese businessman (born 1992) |
|---|---|
| Roles | Founder, Moonshot AI |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University, Tsinghua University |
| Links | Wikipedia · moonshot.ai |
About Yang Zhilin
Yang Zhilin is the founder of Moonshot AI.
Moonshot AI: Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 models.
Yang studied at Carnegie Mellon University and Tsinghua University.
Today Moonshot AI ranks #83 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 11 papers in the last year and 5 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Yang is part of that story.
Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Yang, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.