Moonshot AI

Yang Zhilin

Born 1992, earned his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University after graduating first in his class from Tsinghua University's Computer Science Department, completing PhD in under 4 years. Published over 20 influential papers in AI, collaborated with multiple Turing Award winners including Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, Google research scientist Quoc V Le, and Yoshua Bengio. Worked at Facebook AI Research (Meta) and Google Brain during and after doctoral study. In 2020, worked with Huawei Technologies on Pangu AI model. In 2021, led team on Wudao LLM at Beijing Academy of AI. Was drummer in a band called Skip List. Founded Moonshot AI in March 2023 after trip to US in December 2022.

Zhou Xinyu

Graduated with Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University (2015). Worked as research intern at Tencent where he gained experience with large-scale machine learning and AI system deployment. Co-creator of ShuffleNet, a mobile-friendly CNN architecture that became instrumental in edge AI and vision applications, cited and deployed by industry giants like Apple.

Wu Yuxin

Obtained undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University (2015), then received master's in Computer Vision from Carnegie Mellon University. Worked at Google Brain on foundation model research and at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) with major contributions to computer vision and AI infrastructure systems. Creator of Detectron2, an open-source computer vision library widely adopted in research and production environments. His open-source projects support training and deployment for dozens of products within Meta and other industry leaders.

Yang Zhilin

CEO and Founder

31-year-old (as of 2026) computer scientist with PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, ranked first in Tsinghua University's Computer Science Department. Published 20+ influential AI papers, worked at Meta AI and Google Brain. Previously involved in Huawei's Pangu AI and Beijing Academy of AI's Wudao LLM.