How a rock music enthusiast who refused Apple built Fable’s biggest threat
One of the biggest breakthroughs last week in the world of AI was China’s Moonshot AI unveiling its flagship Kimi K3 model – a massive 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight system competing head-to-head with the West’s GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable. It was so disruptive that it sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and global tech markets. It offered frontier-level performance at insanely affordable prices. At the centre of this global hype is Yang Zhilin – the man who turned down Apple years ago.
