On the evening of January 21, 2026, Zhang Yutong, President of Kimi at Moonshot AI, shared her insights into the core competitiveness underpinning China’s AI technology boom during two thematic dialogues—“China’s AI+ Economy” and “Native AI-Driven Enterprises”—at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.

She emphasized that Chinese AI companies, operating with merely 1% of the resources available to their U.S. counterparts, have successfully developed globally competitive large-scale AI models, such as Kimi K2 and Kimi K2 Thinking. This achievement has been made possible through pioneering algorithmic innovations and efficient utilization of computing resources. Notably, some of these models even surpass top-tier U.S. closed-source models in terms of performance.

Zhang Yutong identified three key drivers propelling China’s AI industry forward: first, a vast market that offers a wealth of application scenarios for AI technologies; second, a society’s open-minded embrace of new technologies, which accelerates technological innovation and iteration; third, a “infrastructure-first” approach that minimizes energy acquisition costs, laying a solid foundation for technological breakthroughs.

Furthermore, she disclosed that Kimi is poised to unveil a new model and predicted that future software will become seamlessly integrated, enabling humans to access a diverse array of functions through natural language interactions facilitated by intelligent agents.