@0xF1ction: Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang: "Every AI lab, like Claude, thinks the model is what matters most. That's wrong. It's how you org…
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Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang argues that organizational structure is more critical than the AI model itself, drawing parallels to Intel's history and emphasizing the scaling of long context as a key advantage.
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Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang:
“Every AI lab, like Claude, thinks the model is what matters most. That’s wrong.
It’s how you organize the people building it that wins. and that’s about Kimi 3“
He spends 15 minutes tracing this back to a 1970s Intel chip nobody wanted to buy.
his one big idea: long context is basically the AI era’s version of RAM
- the same jump from 128K to gigabytes, just compressed into a couple of years instead of forty
the real goal? “your biggest advantage, and perhaps your only advantage, is your organization”
watch & bookmark - then read the article on the org structure built for this bet ↓
Fiction (@0xF1ction): Kimi CEO Zhilin Yang:
“everyone’s racing on reasoning. Claude quietly bet on agents instead
but the agent was never the hard part - the model under it is. that’s all we build at Kimi 3“
in a 90-min workshop he explains why the smartest agent still fails - if you can’t
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