Wayland ZhangWayland Zhang

Serial tech founder turned AI researcher. I build production AI systems and write about what I learn along the way.

Previously founded a social advertising platform acquired by AdChina (Alibaba Group). Studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto ('03-'07), where I attended Professor Geoffrey Hinton's class.

I started sharing what I was learning about AI in 2024. The community grew to over 100,000 practitioners across Bilibili and TikTok. That momentum pushed me to write three books and build two open-source platforms.

waylandzhang[at\text{at}]gmail.com

Projects

Shannon|GitHub

Production-grade multi-agent platform with deterministic replay, budget enforcement, and enterprise observability. Built with Rust, Go, and Python.

Dnalyaw|GitHub

AI quantitative trading system with nanosecond risk checks in Rust, order management in Go, and RL-driven signal generation in Python.

Books

2026AI Quantitative Trading
2025Multi-Agent Architecture Patterns
2024LLM Transformer: From Zero to One

Timeline

2026~Practicing open source AI Agent frameworks and building an AI quant trading platform.
2025~Recurrent token generation in Transformer architectures won't take us to AGI. Researching dynamic neural networks and reasoning.
2023 - 2024Became deeply interested in large language models (LLMs) and general AI.
2019 - 2022Took a well-deserved break from startups while actively investing in several challenging projects.
2015 - 2018Founded a cloud-native platform designed to simplify cloud infrastructure management.
2008 - 2014Founded a social advertising platform, which was later acquired by AdChina, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group.
2003 - 2007Studied at University of Toronto, major in Computer Science. Attended Geoff Hinton's class.