Zhilin Yang runs Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi models. The newsletter quotes him arguing that the hard part of the Singularity was never the agent but the model beneath it, calling a pure reasoning model a fish tank with a brain in it, and stating the endgame plainly: we want K2 to help build K3. He is the first lab chief executive in the corpus to describe Kimi K3 as the product of its predecessor rather than of its staff.
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Zhilin Yang
Chief executive of Moonshot AI, the lab behind Kimi, quoted stating the company's endgame as having K2 help build K3.
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