A guy from Chelyabinsk built an AI model for video generation, and his company is now valued at $5.4 billion — at 31, he could become a new billionaire, Forbes writes. Age 10: started coding. By 20, he reached the ICPC World Finals , joined Yandex and trained neural networks. 2018: launched AI Factory with a friend. They sold the startup for $166 million , after which he moved to the US and headed a neural-network division at Snapchat. 2023: left and founded Higgsfield