Founder of a listed tool
Yang Zhilin
Co-founder and CEO, Moonshot AI, named behind the Kimi Code CLI listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Yang builds
Kimi Code CLI B · Agent harnesses
Open-source terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI that replaced the archived Python Kimi CLI. It runs Kimi, Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini models, headless with
kimi -p, as an ACP server, or behind a local REST server.Co-founder and CEO, Moonshot AI, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Wu Yuxin Co-founder, Moonshot AI
- Zhou Xinyu Co-founder, Moonshot AI
Backed by
Alibaba Group Monolith Management HongShan Meituan Tsinghua Capital China Mobile CPE Yuanfeng
Questions
Who is Yang Zhilin?
Yang Zhilin co-founded Moonshot AI in Beijing in March 2023 and is its CEO. He earlier worked at Google Brain, Meta and Huawei, co-authored the XLNet and Transformer-XL papers, completed a PhD at Carnegie Mellon, and co-founded Recurrent AI.
What does Moonshot AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists Kimi Code CLI from Moonshot AI. Open-source terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI that replaced the archived Python Kimi CLI. It runs Kimi, Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini models, headless with kimi -p, as an ACP server, or behind a local REST server.
Who has invested in Moonshot AI?
The sources our research read name Alibaba Group, Monolith Management, HongShan, Meituan, Tsinghua Capital, China Mobile and CPE Yuanfeng.
How are Yang's tools graded?
Kimi Code CLI is graded B, 62.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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