[Kimi Yang Zhilin: Open-source models are becoming the new standard, and AI will increasingly dominate research in the future] Jin10 News, March 25 – On March 25, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum, Yang Zhilin, founder and CEO of Dark Side of the Moon, delivered a keynote speech on open-source AI. He stated that open-source models, represented by KimiK2.5, are becoming the new standard, and hardware manufacturers often need to use open-source model benchmarks to demonstrate their performance improvements. Additionally, he noted that the current research methods in the AI field are undergoing changes. Previously, the industry relied more on large amounts of internet data and a small amount of manual annotation, with humans determining whether the results aligned with human values and preferences. Since last year, the industry has placed greater emphasis on reinforcement learning, but it is still humans who filter high-quality tasks. Improvements in areas such as programming and mathematics have stemmed from this approach. Moving forward, AI will play a greater role in leading research. Each researcher will be equipped with a large number of tokens to synthesize new tasks and environments. AI will define the most suitable reward functions within these environments and even explore new network architectures. Under this premise, the entire AI development process will gradually accelerate.