Moonshot Founder Was Their PhD Student
rsalakhu · x · 2026-07-18
A researcher posted that Moonshot AI founder Zhilin Yang was once their PhD student, taking the opportunity to show off the career placements of several other students and alumni.
The list includes many well-known figures in the AI community, spanning founders, professors, and researchers at companies like Thinking Machines / Mistral, Moonshot AI, xAI, Apple, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft AI, and NVIDIA AI.
The post's main value lies in illustrating how a crucial AI academic network successfully feeds talent into the industry as founders, researchers, and professors.
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