Yutong Zhang

Yutong Zhang is a founder and president of Moonshot AI (Kimi), the Chinese large language model company now reportedly valued near $30 billion . She was previously a managing partner at GSR Ventures, where she built a track record as an early investor in Xiaohongshu and Recurrent AI, the latter being founder Yang Zhilin's prior startup . Her move to Moonshot AI followed a high-profile departure from GSR in 2024 and a subsequent dispute with former colleague Allen Zhu, who publicly accused her of failing to disclose her founder stake and breaching fiduciary duties . At Moonshot AI, she operates under the alias "Aether" and has been described as deeply involved in day-to-day operations, functioning as "the company's housekeeper" . In a 2025 Tsinghua campus talk hosted by ZhenFund, she appeared alongside founder Yang Zhilin as a public face of the company . Her trajectory marks one of the more contested investor-to-founder transitions in China's AI funding boom.