Yang Zhilin and the Kimi K3 Roadmap
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-19
This is a quoted reply discussing Moonshot AI / Kimi founder and CEO Yang Zhilin's background ahead of his GTC 2026 introduction, highlighting his academic roots, his tenure at Meta AI and Google Brain, and his connections to researchers like Bengio and LeCun.\n\nThe post also recaps Kimi's technological evolution: from tackling long-context memory issues with Transformer-XL and XLNet, to the 1T parameter MoE architecture of Kimi K2, and finally to Kimi K3's native vision, 1 million token context, and 16 activated experts.
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