China warned on July 27 that it will take all necessary measures to protect its AI companies if the US imposes sanctions, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Chinese firms of industrial-sca…
Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot's Kimi, Zhipu's GLM, and MiniMax have shipped models that are 10–30x cheaper than Western flagships while scoring within a few points of th…
Chinese open-source AI models are not a threat to America but a mercy, according to an essay arguing that Beijing's comparable models at lower cost are shortening the run of the mispriced scaling para…
The Trump administration is threatening sanctions against Chinese AI labs over alleged model theft, but American startups are already switching to cheaper Chinese models. Treasury Secretary Scott Bess…
MiniMax M3, Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, three open-weight models released in mid-2026, compete with closed frontier systems on agentic coding but differ in hardware requirements, latenc…
The U.S. government is weighing whether AI distillation — a standard technique for training one model using another's outputs — constitutes model theft when done without authorization, as a House bill…
DeepSeek and Moonshot's Kimi K3, not China's other AI labs, have shaken Silicon Valley by disproving two foundational assumptions about AI: DeepSeek challenged the cost curve by matching frontier perf…
Octomind launched a new AI coding tool called Hub that eliminates the need for API keys. The tool installs via a single curl command and allows developers to log in using a device flow, with each mach…
Chinese tech firms are expanding globally across AI software and hardware, with Shanghai-based AI lab MiniMax generating 73% of its 2025 revenue outside mainland China, up from US$21.3 million to US$5…
Representative Bill Huizenga introduced the Deterring American AI Model Theft Act of 2026, H.R. 8283, on April 15, which would make AI model distillation a sanctionable offense, and the House Foreign …
Three senior US officials on Wednesday accused Chinese AI company Moonshot AI of conducting covert, industrial-scale distillation of American AI models, specifically alleging it distilled Anthropic's …
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to impose sanctions on Chinese AI firms that steal intellectual property from American technology companies, citing concerns over practices like model …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration will investigate whether Chinese AI models were distilled from American ones, leaving sanctions on the table for "theft." Frontier lab econo…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI developers on Tuesday, citing investigations into whether their models were built with intellectual property taken from US riva…
Open-weight AI models from Chinese labs are proving to be a terrible business, unlike open-source software, according to financial disclosures and analyst reports. Zhipu, the lab behind GLM 5.2, lost …
A ranking of the nine best open-weight large language models in 2026 finds Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI tied with Claude Opus 4.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, though its weights are not …
China's first regulations on AI companion services took effect July 15, banning platforms from offering virtual partners or relatives to minors. The rules, jointly issued by the Cyberspace Administrat…
MiniMax M3 introduces sparse attention to make long-horizon agents practical, according to a post by elvis@omarsar0. The model aims to improve efficiency for AI agents operating over extended timefram…
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, after pivoting from building AI models to enterprise data infrastructure. Lee calls the product "Boss AI" an…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that sparked US tech stock declines, has paused new subscriptions due to overwhelming demand exceeding GPU capacity. The Chinese co…