Yang Zhilin of Moon Dark Side: AI Agents to Popularize in Stages, Open-Source Models Become New Standard

Yang Zhilin, founder of Moon Dark Side, stated at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum that AI agents will popularize in stages: short-term for tech-sensitive early adopters; mid-term covering all office knowledge workers with exponential growth in personal token consumption; long-term permeating all productivity-related professions and entertainment fields with embodied intelligence development.

He mentioned open-source models like Kimi K2.5 are becoming new standards, and hardware manufacturers need to prove performance improvements via open-source model evaluation sets. AI research has shifted from relying on internet data and manual labeling to emphasizing reinforcement learning, driving gains in programming and math.

Additionally, product prices remain stable due to cost reduction from large-scale algorithm applications, and Kimi's evolution focuses on token efficiency, long context, and agent cluster synergy.