Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI

Following the breakout global success of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s R1 model early last year, Yang Zhilin faced what many ...

Chinese AI model rivals ChatGPT, jolting Silicon Valley

Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China is taking the U.S. tech industry by surprise ...

Chinese AI model takes US tech industry by surprise with abilities rivaling Claude and ChatGPT

Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China took the U.S. tech industry by surprise Friday, the latest sign ...

He looks like a teen, but this rock-loving tech star just upended the AI race

Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin has become the face of China’s AI boom after the release of his new model that appears to ...
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A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 - and it's free

Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI ...