Kimi's MoE Architecture Traced Back to Yang Zhilin's Decade-Old PhD Thesis

Following Yang Zhilin's GTC 2026 keynote, tech communities are tracing Kimi's competitive MoE architecture back to his decade-old PhD research on XLNet at CMU. His early academic work laid the crucial groundwork for the current trillion-parameter model.

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