يانگ جيلين
Yang Zhilin | |||||||||||
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杨植麟 | |||||||||||
| وُلِدَ | 1992 (العمر 33–34) | ||||||||||
| التعليم | |||||||||||
| عـُرِف بـ | Co-founder of Moonshot AI Co-author of XLNet and Transformer-XL | ||||||||||
| السيرة العلمية | |||||||||||
| المجالات | الذكاء الاصطناعي | ||||||||||
| أطروحة | Advances in Generative Feature Learning (2019) | ||||||||||
| المشرفون الأكاديميون |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| الصينية المبسطة | 杨植麟 | ||||||||||
| الصينية التقليدية | 楊植麟 | ||||||||||
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Yang Zhilin (الصينية: 杨植麟; پنين: Yáng Zhílín; born 1992) is a Chinese entrepreneur and businessman who is the co-founder of the AI company Moonshot AI. He also co-founded Recurrent AI.
Yang is also the co-author of the papers relating to XLNet and Transformer-XL.
النشأة والتعليم
Yang was born in 1992 in Shantou, Guangdong province. He once dreamt of becoming a rock star or a wandering poet. His favourite band is Pink Floyd and his favourite album is The Dark Side of the Moon.[1][2]
Yang attended Shantou Jinshan Middle School. Despite having no programming background, after one year of training he won first prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Guangdong province which earned him admittance to Tsinghua University. He nevertheless sat the Gaokao, earning a 667, the high score in Shantau, which served as a second admittance ticket to Tsinghua.[1]
At Tsinghua, Yang originally majored in thermal engineering. However, after reading a novel by Haruki Murakami, Yang decided to change his major to computer science. His academic adviser was Jie Tang (co-founder of Z.ai). During his time at university, Yang formed a rock band called Splay (named after Splay tree) where he was drummer and songwriter.[2]
After graduating from Tsinghua in 2015, Yang moved to the United States to pursue his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. He studied under Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Apple director of AI research) and William Cohen (Google DeepMind principal scientist).[1][2][3]
During his PhD studies, Yang worked at Google Brain and Meta Platforms. He also co-authored papers on computer reasoning and pattern recognition with Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. His most notable papers authored are on XLNet and Transformer-XL.[1][3][4] In 2019, after four years, Yang obtained his PhD from CMU.[1][3]
المسيرة المهنية
In 2016 during his studies, Yang co-founded Recurrent AI, an AI company that focused on sales technology. It used the Transformer-XL algorithm to provide solutions.[2]
After graduation in 2019, it was said that Yang could have pursued postdoctoral opportunities at Stanford University or MIT and that Apple tried to recruit him. Instead Yang returned to China to focus on his startup company.[3]
In 2020. Yang worked with Huawei on an early version of Huawei PanGu.[4]
In 2021, Yang led a team to work on the development of the Wu Dao LLM at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.[4]
In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. Yang realised he didn't want to miss out on the generative artificial intelligence trend.[1] The next month he made a trip to the United States to learn more about ChatGPT.[4]
In March 2023, Yang co-founded Moonshot AI with some Tsinghua alumni who were his Splay band-mates. The name comes from the album The Dark Side of the Moon and the company was launched on its 50th anniversary.[1][2][3]
In December 2024, it was reported Yang was locked in a legal dispute with investors of Recurrent AI that included GSR Ventures over his departure from the company.[5]
See also
References
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