Moonshot Team and Talent Philosophy in the LLM Era
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-07-19
This repost focuses on the LLM era valuing 'doers': the author mentions advocating for hiring Yuxin Wu back then, noting that business processes used to be 'top-down direction, grassroots execution' but now model capabilities directly impact business models, and many things can't be mechanically measured by fixed benchmarks due to extensive reward hacking. The quote also adds backgrounds of Moonshot AI's four core founders (behind Kimi): Yang Zhilin, Zhang Yutao, Wu Yuxin, Zhou Xinyu, all from Tsinghua/CMU/FAIR/Google Brain, emphasizing the team's strong credentials.
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