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Financial Times reports on China's AI talent war, highlighting Moonshot founder Yang Zhilin's ability to retain a top research team amid aggressive poaching by large tech companies.
Kimi's CEO Yang Zhilin advocates avoiding clever architectures and prioritizing scaling, exemplified by Moonshot's MuonClip fix that enabled stable training on 15.5 trillion tokens.
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.
This article features an interview with Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, discussing the challenges and vision of building foundation models and the AI assistant Kimi, reflecting on the past year of development.