Meet Yang Zhilin, the CEO and founder behind China’s new Kimi K3 AI model0

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• July 19, 2026

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.