{"slug": "yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai", "title": "Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI", "summary": "Yang Zhilin, the founder of China's Moonshot AI, has closed the gap with leading US rivals with the company's new K3 model, according to the Financial Times. Known as 'Yang the genius' by classmates, Yang leads the Beijing-based startup that is gaining attention in the AI race.", "body_md": "# Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI\n\nSource:\n\n[Financial Times Technology](https://www.ft.com/technology)Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai-5qs2", "published_at": "2026-07-24 15:00:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 15:40:12.161604+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Yang Zhilin", "Moonshot AI", "Financial Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yang-zhilin-the-rock-star-founder-behind-chinas-moonshot-ai.jsonld"}}