“Baby-faced” billionaire Yang Zhilin recently dealt the biggest shock to Western markets since DeepSeek, wiping hundreds of billions of dollars off the valuations of AI and chip stocks. Yang Zhilin is a prog-rock devotee who named his firm in honour of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, seemingly in tune with Western ideas and culture. The 34-year-old has built a “mythology” that has “helped distinguish Moonshot from China's otherwise austere AI industry”, says the Financial Times . Yang Zhilin heads to China's MITYang Zhilin was born in 1992 and grew up in Shantou in the southern state of Guangdong – China's industrial heartland. Yang Zhilin returned to the laboratory to focus on model training.