Driving a team to constantly strive for excellence is a difficult task; in my experience, if a team struggles in this regard, the fault lies with the boss.
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The Model Y is the superior transportation appliance, but when the mission is about more than getting from A to B, there's still no beating the internal combustion engine. Collecting a stable of great cars is one of the finest rewards of entrepreneurial success.
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Chinese students are often down-to-earth do-ers, a critical characteristic in LLM era.
Yuxin Wu was my intern back in 2015 and I spent an hour debating with my former manager on the roof of Facebook building, arguing that he should be hired.
I won the debate by staking my reputation on it. Fortunately I was right.
It used to be the case that the business model is fixed and business workflow clearly decouples into vision + execution. Professional CEO/VP/Director focus on presenting the long-term vision, and junior people sit in the war room to do the grudging work to push the numbers up, and no one knows their names.
Things have changed substantially. The business pattern now depends on the technical strength of the models, which cannot be measured by a pre-defined set of benchmark numbers. Too many ways and too much incentive towards reward hacking, if sitting in a big hierarchy.
Technical-first now becomes critical. Sit down and get things to work. Get hands dirty, check the data and code, fast feedback loop, step out of the echo chamber, tear the pretty story apart and rewrite, ready to say "I am wrong". Let experiments tell the issues and be humble in front of AI.
That's why down-to-earth doers shine now. This applies to everyone including co-founders. Anything else follows.
Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, has four core founders. Their backgrounds are unusually strong:
- Founder and CEO Yang Zhilin studied computer science at Tsinghua before earning his PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He was the first author of Transformer-XL and XLNet, and previously worked at FAIR and Google Brain.
- Co-founder and CTO Zhang Yutao earned his PhD in computer science from Tsinghua. His earlier work covered knowledge graphs and AMiner, and he previously co-founded Recurrent AI with Yang.
- Co-founder Wu Yuxin studied at Tsinghua and CMU before joining FAIR. He worked with Kaiming He on Group Normalization and also created Detectron2.
- Co-founder Zhou Xinyu studied computer science at Tsinghua and later joined Megvii, where he worked on turning research algorithms into production systems and co-authored ShuffleNet.
They all share one root: Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua is widely regarded as one of China’s top universities. In the latest U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, it reached No. 6 worldwide.
Its influence on China’s AI industry extends well beyond Moonshot. Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, also grew out of Tsinghua. Its co-founder and chief scientist, Tang Jie, was once Yang Zhilin’s teacher.
There is also a more personal connection.
Yang and Zhou formed a rock band together at Tsinghua. Moonshot AI’s Chinese name, 月之暗面, comes from Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon, one of Yang’s favorites.
Kimi may look like a young AI company. Behind it is a much older network of classmates, teachers, research labs, and friendships.
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Jessica modeling the rarest YC shirt of all. I wondered why I'd never seen these in the wild. It's because she had them made just for her in various colors in 2006.
作为一个公司的负责人，如果我一天沉浸在1,2件事情上，能够得到一个结果或者经验，我就觉得这一天过的很👍；如果是一天都是在为公司其他细节烦扰，这看一下，那走一下，我就会觉得自己啥事好像都没有干。如何按照需要的方式来评价自己，驱动自己，是我现在遇到的难题！
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Karpathy 现在去 Anthropic 重新写代码去了。没有搞懂为什么这样干，这样亮眼的简历：
- OpenAI 创始成员之一
- Tesla 前AI总监， Elon亲自当猎头，解决Autopilot计算机视觉，直接推动FSD
- Github的开源nanoGPT、micrograd等项目手把手教你从0开始实现GPT
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🍎 活动预告：#疯狂星期四 第11期，下周四，不见不散（五一长假前最后一期）
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☕️ 无需准备，无需 PPT，喝咖啡、随意交流、海边散步，主打一个 Chill～
- 时间：2026年04月23日(星期四) 12:00~18:00
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更多细节：
- 环境：空调 + 宽敞桌椅
- 电网：WiFi + 插座
- 地铁：1号线/前湾站
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