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The founder of China’s hottest AI startup du jour is having a main character moment.Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, is going viral on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. Chinese fans of the executive are calling him a “millennial genius” after his new Kimi K3…
The angst over China’s latest AI models is missing an important business fact: “open weight” AI is not the same thing as open-source software.Open-source software, where the code is freely shared, can be an amazing business. Think Red Hat, which IBM bought for $34 billion. Open-weight AI models are different…
Moonshot AI’s latest Kimi K3 model is giving China’s internet plenty to talk about.The Chinese startup unveiled the open-weight model on Thursday, touting its ability to compete with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. Days later, Moonshot AI temporarily suspended new subscriptions, citing overwhelming…
There’s a founder making waves in the AI industry that’s not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei.Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind the Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which seized Silicon Valley’s attention this…
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race.Kimi K3, unveiled on Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic — at a lower cost.The company…
A new open-source AI model from China is drawing comparisons to DeepSeek, the LLM that shook Silicon Valley.Developers, investors, and AI executives have spent the past week praising GLM-5.2, an open-source model built by Beijing-based Z.ai, for coding and agentic AI tasks. The company says it supports a 1 million-token…
