@FinanceYF5: One of the key technologies for Kimi to beat US models may trace back to founder Yang Zhilin’s doctoral thesis written ten years ago. He is 34, with a bachelor's from Tsinghua and a PhD from CMU, and during his PhD, he worked at Meta AI and Google Brain. That XLNet paper, cited over 10,000 times, later evolved into Kimi K2's trillion-parameter Mo…
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The article points out that one key technology for Kimi defeating US models may originate from founder Yang Zhilin’s doctoral thesis ten years ago, mentioning the connection between XLNet and Kimi K2's trillion-parameter MoE architecture.
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One of the key technologies behind Kimi’s victory over American models may trace back to a doctoral thesis written by its founder, Yang Zhilin, a decade ago.
At 34, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and a PhD from CMU, with stints at Meta AI and Google Brain during his doctoral studies. XLNet, which has been cited over 10,000 times, later evolved into the trillion-parameter MoE architecture of Kimi K2. https://t.co/QraSavtKQt
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