Zhilin Yang founded Kimi to seek the optimal solution for converting energy into intelligence. In 2025, Kimi empowered the open-source community with advanced agentic coding and reasoning capabilities via the trillion-parameter Kimi K2 and K2 Thinking. In early 2026, Kimi released Kimi K2.5, a native multimodal model that defines "Visual Agentic Intelligence" through its state-of-the-art visual coding and Agent Swarm framework for parallel task orchestration. The Kimi app and kimi.com empower tens of millions of professionals and knowledge workers monthly across research, engineering, and professional services. Zhilin holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in NLP from Carnegie Mellon University.