- Co-founder and chief executive officer, Moonshot AI since 202312
Yang Zhilin is co-founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, the Beijing company behind the Kimi chatbot and open-weight Kimi models. He previously worked at Google Brain and Meta after studying at Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon, and co-founded Moonshot in 2023 with Tsinghua classmates.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and chief executive officer
- Company
- Moonshot AI
- Fields
- Language models
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Moonshot AI and Kimi
Moonshot AI launched in March 2023; Yang serves as CEO. The company's Kimi products and later open-weight releases made Moonshot one of China's most closely watched frontier labs.12
Earlier research career
Coverage of Yang's path notes research roles at Google and Meta and doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon after Tsinghua.31
Timeline
- Co-founded Moonshot AI.1
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
Where they work
- Moonshot AI 3 people in the wiki
Related people
- Yuxin WuAlso at Moonshot AI
- Xu TanAlso at Moonshot AI
- Anand ChowdharyLanguage models
- Sergey EdunovLanguage models
- Matthew BermanLanguage models
- John X. MorrisLanguage models
- Maxime LabonneLanguage models
- Jared KaplanLanguage models
- Stefano SoattoLanguage models
- Lewis TunstallLanguage models
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References
3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026