When China’s DeepSeek sent shock waves through the technology world early last year, it raised a confronting question for America’s tech giants, could China build cutting-edge artificial intelligence for a fraction of the cost? More than a year on DeepSeek is no longer the only strong challenger. In recent weeks, Chinese AI developers Z.ai (formerly…
In the past six weeks, America’s most protected artificial-intelligence model, Anthropic’s Fable 5, was jailbroken on release, temporarily switched off by a letter from the Trump administration, and dethroned on leader boards by a Chinese model, Kimi K3. Moonshot AI, K3’s maker, released the powerful model in mid-July; K3’s “weights”—the trillions of numbers that store…
Beijing-based AI startup Moonshot has targeted a US$50 billion valuation ahead of a potential Hong Kong initial public offering this year. (Reuters pic) BEIJING: Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US…
China’s AI boom has just picked up speed as days after startup Moonshot AI rocked the tech world with its Kimi K3 system, e-commerce giant Alibaba launched a preview of its latest flagship model, Qwen3.8 Max. The tech giant positioned the powerful new model as directly comparable to top global frontier systems, describing its performance…