The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem is a landmark Chinese science-fiction novel by Liu Cixin, repeatedly invoked in elsewhere's corpus as a cultural touchstone for China's tech and investment worlds. ZhenFund's Yusen Dai, in a January 2026 reading list, noted that Liu's "capture of the water droplet" in the book clearly drew from Stanisław Lem's earlier *Fiasco* . The work has become a benchmark for ambition in AI: Yuan Xingyuan of ColorfulClouds Technology told 5Y Capital in late 2024 that his goal was to create works "on par with *The Three-Body Problem*" rather than mediocre content . More recently, Moonshot AI has used the book's "two-dimensional foil" weapon as a metaphor for its own radical organizational flattening—"releasing this foil upon itself" to compress hierarchy . The title has also been adopted for China's first space-based intelligent computing constellation, the "Three-Body Computing Constellation," for which ZhenFund-backed Helium Starlink serves as exclusive terminal payload provider .