# Yang Zhilin (slim)

> Yang Zhilin is co-founder and CEO of Moonshot AI. Kimi Code CLI on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and CEO, Moonshot AI.

Yang Zhilin co-founded Moonshot AI in Beijing in March 2023 and is its CEO.

## What Yang builds

- [Kimi Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-code-cli.md), graded B, 62.1/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Wu Yuxin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wu-yuxin/), Co-founder, Moonshot AI
- [Zhou Xinyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhou-xinyu/), Co-founder, Moonshot AI

## Backed by

- [Alibaba Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alibaba-group/)
- [Monolith Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/monolith-management/)
- [HongShan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hongshan/)
- [Meituan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meituan/)
- [Tsinghua Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tsinghua-capital/)
- [China Mobile](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/china-mobile/)
- [CPE Yuanfeng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cpe-yuanfeng/)

## Questions

### Who is Yang Zhilin?

Yang Zhilin co-founded Moonshot AI in Beijing in March 2023 and is its CEO.

### What does Moonshot AI make?

Anchor Terminal lists Kimi Code CLI from Moonshot AI.

### 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.

## Sources

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshot_AI
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Zhilin
- https://moonshotai.github.io/kimi-code/en/
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/main/README.md
- https://www.moonshot.ai/
- https://www.moonshot.ai/about

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.