OpenAI and Anthropic warned that Chinese AI labs, including operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, are using tens of thousands of fake accounts to distill their models…
Demand for grade-A office space in Beijing's Zhongguancun district rose in the first half of 2025, driven by expanding AI and semiconductor firms, making it the only submarket to post rent growth. Kni…
GitHub Copilot added Kimi K2.7 Code, Moonshot AI's open-weight coding model, on July 1 for Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers, expanding to Business and Enterprise on July 7. It is the first open-weight m…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its sto…
U.S. lawmakers are investigating the growing use of Chinese AI models by American companies like Cursor and Airbnb, citing concerns over censorship, security risks, and reliance on cheaper foreign alt…
GitHub added Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight 1-trillion-parameter model by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, to the Copilot model picker on July 1 for Pro users and July 7 for Business and Enterprise. The mod…
A new benchmarking platform, Agentic Coding Arena, compares 21 frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and Qwen by having each build the same 52 small apps from identical…
Chinese AI models now account for 30-46% of enterprise API token usage on US developer platforms, driven by costs 60-90% lower than US frontier models, with DeepSeek V4 Flash alone commanding 16.3% of…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax is building a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model, which it plans to open-source, according to The Information. The model, internally called M3 Pro, would be China's…
A CTO evaluated four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—for production use at scale, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best overall value at $0.25/M tokens, while Kimi K2.5 exc…
Republican-led House panels opened a joint investigation into Airbnb and Anysphere over their use of Chinese-developed AI models, citing national security, data-security, and model-distillation concer…
Approximately 80% of US startups using open-source AI have adopted cheaper Chinese models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, according to Andreessen Horowitz. The shift, driven by costs as low a…
A developer tested four Chinese AI models—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—across coding, reasoning, creative writing, and Mandarin tasks. DeepSeek V4 Flash emerged as a top pick for its balance of perfo…
Chinese AI models now account for over 30% of weekly token usage among US users on OpenRouter, driven by cost advantages of 60-90% over Western rivals. The surge, led by MiniMax M2.5, Moonshot AI's Ki…
Anthropic removed hidden tracking markers from Claude Code after a security researcher discovered the AI coding assistant used undisclosed Unicode markers and encoded domain lists to identify users' l…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source coding model under a near-MIT license, but its 594GB size at 4-bit quantization makes local deployment impractical for most user…
A developer compared four Chinese AI APIs—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—by stress-testing them under production-like workloads. DeepSeek V4 Flash emerged as the top pick for price-to-performance, offe…
GitHub added Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code model to Copilot on July 1, 2026, making it the first China-based lab's model available in the platform. The trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, becoming the first open-weight model selectable in the Copilot model picker. GitHub hosts the model on Microsoft Azure, rolli…
Alibaba banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code after security researchers discovered hidden steganographic code that tracked Chinese users by timezone and proxy settings. The ban follows …