Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang gets praise for a leaner training setup
carrycooldude · x · 2026-07-21
Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang is being praised for the engineering approach behind the model.
The post highlights two specific claims about the training setup:
- removing the Adam optimizer
- doubling the gradient while still getting the same results
It also suggests that model organization matters and that getting better results with fewer tokens is the right direction.
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