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Yang Zhilin

Founder of the Chinese AI company Moonshot AI

3recordsFirst record 2024Latest Jul 21, 2026

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Yang Zhilin (杨植麟, Moonshot AI)
Yang Zhilin says K2 was open-sourced because Moonshot isn't yet fully ahead

The person involved makes explicit that open-weight decisions are a function of competitive ranking, not ideology. The most direct explanation yet of the motive behind China's open-source strategy

Yang Zhilin (杨植麟) and others, Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin explains the open-source choice in a K2 Thinking AMA

A statement in which a Chinese lab justified open weights in normative language, and a record of a party directly denying the low-cost narrative

Yang Zhilin (杨植麟, Moonshot AI)
Yang Zhilin frames AI as scaling laws and long context as key to AGI

The first systematic statement by a Chinese lab founder declaring long context a core pillar of the path to AGI. Supplied the language for the 2024 reshaping of China's LLM race into a long-context race