Chinese AI labs are challenging Silicon Valley with a series of nearly cutting-edge open-source models, including Z.ai's GLM 5.2, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8, which perform nearly as…
White House Director Michael Kratsios accused Moonshot AI of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop its Kimi K3 system, which launched around July 16, 2026, with 2.8 trillion parameter…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI company Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to create its own K3 model, calling the large…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios publicly accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop its viral Kimi K3 model, calling the large-s…
Chinese open-weight AI models are no more dangerous than any other open-source software, according to Lucas Atkins, CTO of U.S. open-source AI lab Arcee. Atkins argues that fears of Chinese models bei…
The White House has accused Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI of training its Kimi K3 model on banned Nvidia GB300 servers routed through Thailand, escalating a dual fight over model distillation and export …
White House tech official Michael Kratsios accused China's Moonshot AI of conducting a large-scale, covert distillation of Anthropic's most advanced AI model, Fable, to help create its K3 model, and o…
The White House has accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of improperly using American AI models and Nvidia chips to build Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that rivals systems from…
Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable model for the development of its K3 model, using a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large-scale distillation against U.S. models and avoid detection, …
China's Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy, closing a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days and planning another targeting a valuation of as …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will scrutinize Chinese open-source AI models for stolen intellectual property and could hit their makers with sanctions, citing watermarks of US large lan…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended Chinese open-source AI models as 'world class' at the China International Supply Chain Expo, arguing US companies should be allowed to use them despite a selloff trigg…
Open-weights AI models from Chinese labs Moonshot AI (Kimi K3) and Alibaba (Qwen 3.8 Max) have reached a 'good enough' threshold for serious AI-assisted engineering, according to developer Senko's tes…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended Chinese AI models and rejected calls to ban them, telling Axios that American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese open-source models. Huang argued …
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 …
Anthropic chief national security officer Tarun Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among companies that have allegedly distilled capabilities from frontier American models, but hours later …
Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, has gone viral on Chinese social media platform Weibo after his company's Kimi K3 model launched on Friday, with the hashtag 'Post-90s Tsin…
Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter model from Moonshot AI, scores an Elo of 1543 on the AA-Briefcase benchmark, second only to Claude Fable 5's 1574, but costs $10.57 per task and averages 56.4 minutes per tas…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will investigate whether Chinese AI models were distilled from American models, threatening sanctions for what he called IP theft. B…
Chinese AI unicorn Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi K3 model, is closing a fundraising round at a US$30 billion valuation and plans a subsequent round as early as August, according to a source. The …