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The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once
The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development
TL;DRChinese AI leaders trained together at university, now competing globally with homegrown talent.
Why it matters: China's AI advances aren't isolated—they're built on institutional expertise that could sustain long-term competitive pressure on Western AI companies.
University lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI; ‘they know perfectly how to monetize their work’
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