Yang Zhilin: China's AI genius shooting for the moon

“Baby-faced” billionaire Yang Zhilin recently dealt the biggest shock to Western markets since DeepSeek, wiping hundreds of billions of dollars off the valuations of AI and chip stocks.Kimi K3, developed by Yang’s Moonshot AI, is the most advanced “open-weight” large language model to emerge from China yet, topping many benchmarks with its capabilities “at a third of the cost”.At a stroke, notions of Silicon Valley's technical dominance have been swept a