The Brains Who Powered China’s Surprising AI Leap
A university lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI.
Tang Jie and Yang Zhilin, once students of computer science, have become prominent figures in China's AI landscape. Tang, a professor at Tsinghua University, co-founded Z.AI, a company valued at tens of billions of dollars. Yang, a former university top academic award nominee, leads Moonshot AI. Both firms are closely monitored by U.S. AI pioneers like Anthropic and OpenAI. The rapid ascent of Chinese AI models has raised concerns over potential intellectual property theft and national security implications.
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