It’s getting increasingly hard for the 34-year-old co-founder of Moonshot to remain in the shadows.

Kimi K3 beats most AI models, except OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. Moonshot is now seeking a valuation of over $30 billion ahead of an IPO.

Users on Weibo are calling Yang Zhilin a "millennial genius," upsetting US tech stocks with Moonshot AI's latest Kimi K3 model.