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…
US officials alleged that Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s most advanced Fable model to develop its K3 model. (Reuters pic) WASHINGTON: A top White House official on Wednesday accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of covertly copying Anthropic’s most advanced model to build its Kimi K3. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House…
The global AI race has just turned up the heat, and yet again, China is making the move. A new challenger has entered the arena, Moonshot’s Kimi K2 Thinking, a model so advanced that its creators say it’s outsmarted OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 on several high-profile benchmarks. Yes, the same GPT-5 that…