The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline
THE SO WHAT
If more founders like Yang Zhilin see greater upside in China than in Silicon Valley, the center of gravity for frontier AI talent is already more multipolar than Western narratives admit. Multinational teams should plan for a world where the best collaborators, competitors, and regulators are not US-centric by default.
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