300 People Interviewed Without Title Using AI System: Zhang Yutong Rarely Talks About How the Dark Side of the Moon Works

According to Dongcha Beating monitoring, Zhang Yutong, the CEO of Dark Moon, revealed multiple internal details of this approximately 300-person company during a dialogue at Peking University Guanghua.

On the organizational front, Dark Moon employees do not have titles, the organizational structure is extremely flat, and at most one to two layers separate any two individuals. Job boundaries are also deliberately blurred: those doing pre-training can switch to post-training, those working on algorithms can switch to data, and even marketing personnel can move to model evaluation. Zhang Yutong's explanation is that people's underlying intelligence is universal and should not be defined by labels.

In terms of recruitment, Dark Moon has already been using an AI interview system to screen candidates. The system does not consider education background or major, focusing instead on two key criteria: first, the ability to come up with original and good ideas, and second, the willingness to passionately iterate on an idea. The AI system records how many iterations a candidate has gone through, what different approaches they have tried, and how long they have been experimenting, filtering out individuals with "abstract thinking ability and obsession."

Regarding product strategy, Zhang Yutong clearly stated that Kimi is only focused on the productivity sector, concentrating on long-range, complex, and high-value tasks, and will not develop entertainment or lifestyle products. She also mentioned that K2.6 was open-sourced with compatibility for Huawei's Ascend chip, and she believes that there is a growing demand for inference computation power.

Discussing the relationship between open source and security, Zhang Yutong directly mentioned Anthropic: "If you believe a model poses a risk, and it is controlled by a few, the risk may be greater." Dark Moon chose the open-source path, with the logic that involving more people is safer than remaining closed.