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Wall Street Journal · Raffaele Huang ·

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

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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In this story Moonshot AI Tang Jie Tsinghua University Yang Zhilin Z.ai
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

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Wall Street Journal — 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 ↗

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