Chinese AI has leveled up, and brought renewed focus on the open weight model shift

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released a new model that it says closes the gap with leading U.S. systems. Kimi K3 still ...

China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source AI model from China that rivals OpenAI, Anthropic and ...
ZDNet

A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 - and it's free

Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI ...
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A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf

There is growing interest from Western startups in switching to cheaper Chinese AI Z.ai's GLM-5.2 performs nearly as well as Claude Opus 4.8 Western enterprise adoption complicated by data security ...