In a recent episode of the "Unfulfilled Promise" program, Zhipu AI CEO Zhang Peng, in a conversation with Zhang Xiaojun, commented on Yang Zhilin, stating that Yang is an exceptionally intelligent individual.

He mentioned that Yang Zhilin came from their laboratory. He is the academic overachiever type. At the time, some of his research achievements had a very significant impact within the circle.

The first company he founded was Recurrent AI, and later he started Moonshot AI, creating Kimi. "I believe he should succeed," because he is an exceptionally intelligent person with deep accumulation and research.

When discussing the commercial environment where fellow alumni begin to compete, Zhang Peng expressed that people from Tsinghua University share this trait; they are all engineering types, relatively rational. In business, one speaks business; when paths cross, things proceed as they should. Each has their own set of rules and their own way of communication.