Professor lists former PhD students now founding Moonshot AI, xAI, Mistral and Apple teams
rsalakhu · x · 2026-07-26
A professor is publicly celebrating former students whose careers now span the AI industry, including founders and founding team members at Moonshot AI, xAI, Mistral, Apple, and Thinking Machines.
The post highlights Zhilin Yang as the founder and CEO of Moonshot AI and says he was the professor’s PhD student, framing the thread as a broad brag list of successful alumni rather than a single-company announcement.
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