Kimi’s Talent Battle Playbook: Not Just Paying Money—Make Researchers Earn Both Fame and Fortune

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According to Beating monitoring, Chinese AI companies are fiercely competing for research talent, and well-funded large firms are continuously poaching people from start-ups. The Financial Times said that after all, the Dark Side of the Moon managed to keep domestic research teams that are relatively strong and stable. Many founding members got to know Yang Zhilin at Tsinghua University or Carnegie Mellon University. Long-term joint study and research have made the team more stable than a temporary lineup of star hires. After the release of DeepSeek R1, Yang Zhilin believed the company had moved into commercialization too early, so it decided to refocus resources on training models and open-source its main model. Researchers can therefore publish results, receive personal authorship, and build industry reputation. The Dark Side of the Moon attracts talent with cutting-edge research, and then leaves researchers with their names through open-sourcing. For researchers who value papers, technical influence, and personal reputation, this is more attractive than simply joining a large firm to work on commercial projects.
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