Yang Zhilin, founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, presented at GTC 2026, detailing the Kimi K3 model's native vision capabilities, 1 million-token context window, and 16 active experts. Zhilin's academic background includes a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. and work at Meta AI and Google Brain, where he contributed to Transformer-XL and XLNet research.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 demonstrates advanced model capabilities from a Chinese frontier lab, intensifying global competition in AI model development.