This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Hatcher, the managing partner of Baringa. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I’ve been a consultant since the late ’90s. I spent most of my career focused on the energy sector, but these days, AI has become a big topic of conversation. I joined
It has never been easier to take on the big boys, says Alexandr Wang. Speaking at a Y Combinator event, the founder of Scale AI, who now runs Meta’s superintelligence labs, said AI has been a game-changer for startups. “It’s probably a once-in-a-civilization opportunity to be a dreamer and have a vision and ambition and
There is one founder making waves in the AI industry who is not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Dario Amodei. Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which caught the attention of Silicon Valley this week.
