# Yang Zhilin

Founder, CEO, chairman and legal representative of Moonshot AI, behind Kimi. Holds a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, and authored Transformer-XL and XLNet. The company was founded in 2023 and completed its conversion to a joint-stock company in 2026 in preparation for a Hong Kong listing.

Chinese person.

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