Kimi K3 sparks discussion: “Why couldn’t the US keep Yang Zhilin?”

Golden Finance reported that after Kimi K3 was released on July 17, it sparked some discussion among Americans about why the U.S. couldn’t keep Moonshot founder Yang Zhilin. Yang Zhilin’s mentor at the University of Cambridge, Russ Salakhutdinov, said in a post that a senior vice president at Apple (a direct subordinate of Tim Cook) asked Yang Zhilin whether he would consider joining Apple, and Yang Zhilin replied that he wanted to return to China.

Apple’s response was that if Yang Zhilin was willing, he could join Apple’s Beijing office. However, at the time, Yang Zhilin was very firm about returning to China to start a startup. If Yang Zhilin didn’t at least try entrepreneurship himself once, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

Oxford University AI PhD student JundeMorsenWu said in a post that, due to obstacles caused by U.S. immigration policies (such as PP10043 and green-card country backlogs), along with China continuously offering favorable conditions such as high salaries, housing, and funding, he is gradually wavering in his decision to pursue an AI PhD at Oxford, and has started to doubt whether he should continue going to the United States—a country that does not seem to welcome him.

In response to JundeMorsenWu’s tweet, Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square, said that the U.S. needs to reform its immigration policies in order to accept true creators, so they can develop within the U.S. and create value. What is especially puzzling is sending the best and smartest students into education institutions funded by the federal government, and then sending them back to their home countries.