{"id":896541,"date":"2026-04-03T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/this-middle-school-dropout-built-his-ai-startup-in-china-now-hes-scaling-it-in-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:22:27","slug":"this-middle-school-dropout-built-his-ai-startup-in-china-now-hes-scaling-it-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/this-middle-school-dropout-built-his-ai-startup-in-china-now-hes-scaling-it-in-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"This Middle School Dropout Built His AI Startup In China. Now He&#8217;s Scaling It In Silicon Valley."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luyu Zhang moved from China to the US last year and can barely speak English. He\u2019s not trying to improve right now, either. That will come later. \u201cI\u2019m too busy with work right now to improve my English,\u201d he tells Forbes through a translator, sitting in a temporary office in Menlo Park. \u201cThat requires time<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/annatong\/2026\/02\/24\/this-middle-school-dropout-built-his-ai-startup-in-china-now-hes-scaling-it-in-silicon-valley\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Anna Tong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luyu Zhang moved from China to the US last year and can barely speak English. He\u2019s not trying to improve right now, either. That will come later. \u201cI\u2019m too busy with work right now to improve my English,\u201d he tells Forbes through a translator, sitting in a temporary office in Menlo Park. \u201cThat requires time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4373,868,192],"tags":[9946,6490],"class_list":{"0":"post-896541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middle","8":"category-school","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-middle","11":"tag-school"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}