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Lessons from Yang Zhilin of Moonshot AI

Yang Zhilin, founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, combines rigor with a long-term focus on AGI. His work on Transformer-XL and XLNet, followed by Kimi’s long-context capabilities, reflects a conviction that technological excellence should make AI more useful.

Lessons from Arthur Mensch

Arthur Mensch is co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI. A former Google DeepMind researcher and École Polytechnique alumnus, he leads a French AI company building frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute.

Lessons from Liang Wenfeng of Deep Seek

Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek and co-founder of High-Flyer, moved from quantitative finance into AI. His strategy combines efficient open-source models, fundamental research, and young talent with a larger ambition: making China a contributor to global technological innovation.

Lessons from Nick Szabo

Nick Szabo, a computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer, helped shape digital currency and blockchain thinking. His smart-contract concept asks how agreements can execute themselves when their terms are encoded directly, bringing software architecture into dialogue with law.

Lessons from Francois Chollet

François Chollet, an artificial intelligence researcher at Google and creator of the Keras deep-learning library, challenges the field’s prevailing hype. His perspective asks for a grounded, nuanced account of intelligence that can distinguish human capacities from artificial systems.

Lessons from Joel Hellermark

Joel Hellermark, founder of the AI-powered learning platform Sana, began the company at nineteen. His thinking connects artificial intelligence, education, and work through a mission to augment human intelligence and examine how AI could transform learning.

Lessons from Bob McGrew

Bob McGrew, former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI and an early engineer at Palantir, brings an experienced builder’s perspective to the future of AI and AGI. His central subject is how increasingly capable systems may develop and matter.

Lessons from David Holz

David Holz, founder of Midjourney and a serial entrepreneur and technologist, places human imagination at the center of AI. His vision asks how image generation and human-computer interaction can expand creativity without reducing technology to mere automation.

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