Reactions from ranked influencers
2 posts
Chinese verison of Ilya and Hinton.
Interesting fact people might not know: Moonshot AI (Kimi models) founder Yang Zhilin, who also goes by the nickname 'Kimi', studied under Jie Tang who is a co-founder of Z AI (GLM models) at Tsinghua university (before CMU)
清华姚班，北大图灵班。多年的奥赛金牌保送最终产生这个结果。中国AI的大半壁江山，包括在美国的顶尖中国研究员，大部分都是这两条路出来的。大量的数学奥赛金牌，物理奥赛金牌和信息奥赛金牌，最终产生了中国AI技术上的飞跃
Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, has four core founders. Their backgrounds are unusually strong: - Founder and CEO Yang Zhilin studied computer science at Tsinghua before earning his PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He was the first author of Transformer-XL and XLNet, and previously worked at FAIR and Google Brain. - Co-founder and CTO Zhang Yutao earned his PhD in computer science from Tsinghua. His earlier work covered knowledge graphs and AMiner, and he previously co-founded Recurrent AI with Yang. - Co-founder Wu Yuxin studied at Tsinghua and CMU before joining FAIR. He worked with Kaiming He on Group Normalization and also created Detectron2. - Co-founder Zhou Xinyu studied computer science at Tsinghua and later joined Megvii, where he worked on turning research algorithms into production systems and co-authored ShuffleNet. They all share one root: Tsinghua University. Tsinghua is widely regarded as one of China’s top universities. In the latest U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, it reached No. 6 worldwide. Its influence on China’s AI industry extends well beyond Moonshot. http://Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, also grew out of Tsinghua. Its co-founder and chief scientist, Tang Jie, was once Yang Zhilin’s teacher. There is also a more personal connection. Yang and Zhou formed a rock band together at Tsinghua. Moonshot AI’s Chinese name, 月之暗面, comes from Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon, one of Yang’s favorites. Kimi may look like a young AI company. Behind it is a much older network of classmates, teachers, research labs, and friendships.