FT Profile: Moonshot Founder Yang Zhilin Turned Down Apple to Build Kimi K3 in China

The Financial Times profiles Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon graduate who returned to China after Google Brain and Meta internships and turned down an Apple offer to work on Huawei's PanGu and BAAI's Wu Dao before founding Moonshot in 2023. The piece frames Kimi K3 as Moonshot's 'DeepSeek moment' after early skepticism about the startup's revenue and model capabilities, and comes as the company preps a Hong Kong IPO within six months. Article body could not be WebFetched from ft.com; scoring is based on the Techmeme summary and surrounding coverage.