Yang Zhilin says long context is AI's memory layer and progress compressed 40 years into 2
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-22
Yang Zhilin's third point is that long context is the AI era's memory layer.
He says the jump from 128K to gigascale context windows represents a pace of progress that would have taken about 40 years in a normal tech cycle, but has instead been compressed into roughly two years.
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