The newsletter identifies him as ‘Moonshot AI CEO Zhilin Yang’ when it records his fish-tank argument and his stated roadmap. The role is what turns the remark into a commitment: the chief executive of the lab behind Kimi K3 describing recursion as the product plan.
Role
Zhilin Yang, chief executive of Moonshot AI
The position from which he stated the lab's endgame as K2 helping to build K3.
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- Welcome to July 19, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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