Zhiyuan Liu

Zhiyuan Liu is a Chinese AI researcher and founder, known on Zhihu as @zibuyu9 and as the founder of MiniMax (面壁智能). In a late-2025 Zhihu year-in-review piece, he was quoted making a deliberately counter-rhythmic argument against industry acceleration: "the faster the era, the more deliberate slowdown is needed," with his specific line being that 2025's real work lay in clarifying foundational questions such as whether agentic AI represents a genuine paradigm shift or merely a short-term application cycle . Elsewhere's corpus does not otherwise cover his background, education, or the details of his company.