@ASPIRANT.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A kid from Shantou with no programming background got into Tsinghua University's computer science department by winning a high school informatics olympiad, then quit a job offer from Google Brain to start an AI company in Beijing with two of his college bandmates. Four years later that company released a 1 trillion parameter open-source AI model that outperformed every American closed model on coding benchmarks and became the fastest Chinese tech company in history to hit a $10 billion valuation.

His name is Yang Zhilin. The company is called Moonshot AI. The model is called Kimi K2.

Here is the story.

Yang was born in 1992 in Shantou, a small city in Guangdong province. In high school he had never written a line of code. He got selected for an informatics olympiad training program anyway. He won first prize at the Guangdong provincial level, which got him guaranteed admission to Tsinghua University.

He scored 667 on the gaokao, far above the Tsinghua cutoff. But the system placed him in Thermal Energy Engineering. He transferred to Computer Science in his sophomore year. He graduated in 2015 ranked first in his department class. During undergrad he was advised by Tang Jie, a Tsinghua professor who would later co-found another Chinese AI giant called Zhipu.

He went to Carnegie Mellon for his PhD under Ruslan Salakhutdinov and William Cohen. He finished in under four years. During that time he co-authored two of the most influential papers in modern AI, Transformer-XL and XLNet, which together shaped the long-context capabilities every modern LLM relies on. He worked at Facebook AI Research and Google Brain. He contributed to the original Google Gemini and Bard projects.

Then in November 2022 ChatGPT launched.

Yang flew back to the United States, looked at what OpenAI had done, and made up his mind. He told an interviewer later that he sensed two things were about to move at once, capital and talent, and when those two move together it is the rare moment when you can build a company from zero to one whose only purpose is AGI.

In March 2023 he founded Moonshot AI in Beijing with two Tsinghua classmates, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin. The three of them had been bandmates in a college rock group called Splay. The company name is a tribute to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Yang's favorite album. The company launched on the album's 50th anniversary.

He raised $60 million and built a 40-person team in three months. By 2024 he had raised over a billion dollars. The investors included Alibaba, Tencent, and Sequoia China. Moonshot AI became the fastest Chinese startup in history to reach a $10 billion valuation. ByteDance took four years. Pinduoduo took three. Moonshot did it in two.

In October 2023 they launched Kimi, a consumer chatbot with a 200,000 character context window, the longest in the world at the time. By 2024 it was running on Chinese hardware and had tens of millions of users.

Then on July 11, 2025 they released Kimi K2.

K2 is a 1 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model that activates 32 billion parameters per inference. It is open weights. It beat GPT-4 and Claude on coding benchmarks. It outperformed DeepSeek V3 on agent tasks and tool use. Former OpenAI researcher Andrew Carr publicly said K2 communicates differently than other models, refusing to be sycophantic and pushing back on bad ideas the way few models do.

By early 2026 Moonshot had crossed $240 million in revenue. The Kimi K2.5 release exceeded the entire 2025 revenue total in under 20 days. K2.6 dropped in April 2026 with a SWE-Bench Pro score of 58.6, ahead of the leading closed-weight coding models at the time.

A kid from Shantou who had never coded a line in high school just released the open-source model that competes head-on with everything OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have shipped.

He named it after the dark side of the moon.

[Prime AI @primemans]

A first-time seller found a product on Alibaba listed at $4.20 per unit, minimum order 500 units.

He paid full price, no negotiation, no sample order first. $2,100 total, shipped.

Half the units arrived with a manufacturing defect the supplier refused to acknowledge, and there was no dispute protection on the order because he'd paid outside the platform's actual checkout system — wiring money directly at the supplier's request to "save on fees."

$2,100, mostly gone, from skipping three specific steps that experienced Alibaba buyers treat as completely non-negotiable.

Alibaba can be an incredibly cheap way to source products — but almost nobody researching it for the first time knows the actual rules experienced buyers follow. Here's exactly how to use it without getting burned 🧵

[@ASPIRANT. @Shresth28441964]

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[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

देश का छात्र कह रहा है - “हमारा कोई भविष्य नहीं।”
और इस सरकार के मंत्री कह रहे हैं - “हमारी कुर्सी नहीं जाएगी।”

जिस देश में छात्र भविष्य खो दे और मंत्री कुर्सी न खोए - वहां न्याय है ही नहीं।

[@ASPIRANT. @Shresth28441964]

@itspriionly Drive

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Address to the nation. https://t.co/iKjEJvlciR

[Mahima @BahuRaani]

“I’ll tell you a secret no one has ever told you.”

Unable to focus?

[Finance Nerd @Finance_Nerd_]

This quote changed my life:

[Inferam @InferamAI]

This is how hormones influence our emotions.

[Don Cricket 🏏 @doncricket_]

Rishabh Pant is ready to restart his International Career.

#T20WorldCup2024

[UGC INDIA @ugc_india]

Can you do an internship in a completely different domain, irrespective of the discipline you are studying?

Prof. @mamidala90, UGC Chairman, discusses the opportunities to promote the culture of internships as an integral part of learning.

#UGC #Internship #Education #Learning

@PMOIndia @EduMinOfIndia @PIB_India

[@ASPIRANT. @Shresth28441964]

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Divorce rate:

🇮🇳India: 1%
🇻🇳Vietnam: 7%
🇹🇯Tajikistan: 10%
🇮🇷Iran: 14%
🇲🇽Mexico: 17%
🇪🇬Egypt: 17%
🇿🇦South Africa: 17%
🇧🇷Brazil: 21%
🇹🇷Turkey: 25%
🇨🇴Colombia: 30%
🇵🇱Poland: 33%
🇯🇵Japan: 35%
🇩🇪Germany: 38%
🇬🇧United Kingdom: 41%
🇳🇿New Zealand: 41%
🇦🇺Australia: 43%
🇨🇳China: 44%
🇺🇸United States: 45%
🇰🇷South Korea: 46%
🇩🇰Denmark: 46%
🇮🇹Italy: 46%
🇨🇦Canada: 47%
🇳🇱Netherlands: 48%
🇸🇪Sweden: 50%
🇨🇵France: 51%
🇧🇪Belgium: 53%
🇫🇮Finland: 55%
🇨🇺Cuba: 55%
🇺🇦Ukraine: 70%
🇷🇺Russia: 73%
🇱🇺Luxembourg: 79%
🇪🇦Spain: 85%
🇵🇹Portugal: 94%

Note: This compares the number of divorces in a given year to the number of marriages in that same year (the ratio of the crude divorce rate to the crude marriage rate). For example, if there are 500 divorces and 1,000 marriages in a given year in a given area, the ratio would be one divorce for every two marriages, e.g. a ratio of 0.50 (50%).

Data is from last available year by country. As an example Portugal data is from 2020, Germany is from 2017.

[Aditya Shah @AdityaD_Shah]

Zudio is driving crazy growth for Trent

Cheap clothes in Ac seems to be working

How has ur experience in Zudio been?
How is the quality of clothes?

[Abhijit Anand @FininceNerd]

This is hypocrisy. Now, Madam is saying the court verdict was obvious, which means it was merely to loot money from poor students.
#ICAI #caexams #castudents

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

World's most polluted cities in 2023:

1.🇮🇳 Begusarai
2.🇮🇳 Guwahati
3.🇮🇳 Delhi
4.🇮🇳 Mullanpur
5.🇵🇰 Lahore
6.🇮🇳 New Delhi
7.🇮🇳 Siwan
8.🇮🇳 Saharsa
9.🇮🇳 Goshaingaon
10.🇮🇳 Katihar

According to IQAir

[Adv Anubha Shrivastava Sahai 🇮🇳 @anubha1812]

Looking for #Jee aspirant from these states whor affected due to 75% criteria

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam , Goa , Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka , Kerala , Manipur, Meghalaya , Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil nadu, Telangana , Tripura, West Bengal

[Bharatiya Teachers Association @bharatiyateach]

Dear @dpradhanbjp ji
Students are depressed due to 75% criteria
Pls help to #Remove75Criteria2023
And Also help for
#Jee23ExtraAttempt
All they are just suffering just because of wrong decision of @DG_NTA
And @IITGuwahati
#JeeMains2023

@narendramodi
@erPawanBhadana

[Pradeep Rawat🇮🇳 @ThePradeepRawat]

All is not over,
One final Hope is still Alive 💐
Thanks to @poojakapilmisra Ji 🙏🏻
for extremely positive & warm support for #JEEMainsInAprilWithout75PercentCriteria #JusticeForJEEAspirants #JusticeForJeeMains2023 @ashishvyas__ Together we keep trying 🙏🏻

[MShweta Singh 🇮🇳 @brand_mshweta]

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