Billionaire: Starting With a Large AI Model

In the winter of 2022, seven days after ChatGPT launched, twenty-six-year-old algorithm engineer Zhou Ye was laid off by a major tech company.

While everyone else was still debating whether large language models were a bubble, Zhou Ye staked his entire severance pay on a secondhand graphics card and began training a coding model in his rented apartment.

From his first paying customer to a thriving developer ecosystem, from one graphics card to a global computing empire, from a laid-off engineer to the richest man in the world in the age of AI.

This time, no one can decide his fate with a simple “business restructuring.”