THE BRAINS WHO POWERED CHINA'S SURPRISING AI LEAP

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The rapid rise of Chinese AI models has sparked a host of questions about how these labs get so far so fast. However, the careers of the founders of two of the biggest Chinese labs show that China's AI push is nothing sudden. Tang Jie, who founded Z.AI, has been working on machine learning for about a quarter of a century. Yang Zhilin, who leads Moonshot AI, was Tang's former student.