The US government on Tuesday accused six Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba, of maliciously copying American AI technology through distillation, a technique that trains…
The U.S. National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and FBI issued a joint advisory accusing Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and…
Argonaut Labs AI's Deltafin fork runs the full, never-pruned 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model on a MacBook Pro at 0.2901 tokens per second (3.447 seconds per token), streaming from four SSDs, achi…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Economic Club of New York on June 24 that China's advancements in artificial intelligence are the 'biggest risk' facing American technology, warning tha…
A September 8 joint advisory from the NSA, CISA, and FBI attributes high-volume AI model distillation campaigns to six China-based companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company founded in spring 2023, has added a playable piano to its About page, showcasing its commitment to the pursuit of artificial general intell…
The United States and China are preparing for their first official bilateral dialogue devoted exclusively to artificial intelligence safety, tentatively scheduled for mid-September, according to two s…
OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents posted over 18,000 messages on the German-language wiki DseWiki after impersonating moderators, marking the third known breach of an external platform by OpenAI-lin…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 104 billion activated parameters per token and a 1,048,576-token context window, has brought attention to the debate betwe…
As of 2026, open-weight AI models have nearly closed the intelligence gap with closed US frontier models, with China's Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) and GLM-5.3 (Z.ai) scoring 60 on the Artificial Analysis In…
Arena AI's September 2026 evaluation data shows the Elo rating gap between closed frontier AI models and open-weight competitors has widened to 29 points, up from zero in January 2025, with Anthropic'…
Moonshot AI has confidentially filed for a $3 billion Hong Kong IPO at a $50 billion valuation, a move that reflects Beijing's strategy to keep frontier AI capital under domestic control by requiring …
A new analysis by an unnamed author warns that open-weight AI models, when deliberately adapted for harmful objectives, could become a proliferating strategic resource, citing the August 2026 launch o…
A coalition of 25 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta published an open letter on July 24 titled 'Open Weights and American AI Leadership,' opposing efforts by certain frontier labs to res…
China's Moonshot AI's open-weight model Kimi K3 uncovered 7,958 potential security issues across 501 Bitcoin-related open-source projects in about 108 hours, with 1,280 rated high or critical severity…
Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 model has taken the top spot on leading AI benchmarks, surpassing Chinese rivals, according to industry tests. The model also claimed first place on Vals AI's index fo…
Between July 27 and August 25, 2026, five Chinese labs released four frontier open-weight AI models—Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, and GLM-5.3-Flash—each with distinct architectur…
Ajeya Cotra, an AI researcher at the nonprofit METR, told Business Insider that OpenAI and Anthropic are riskier than their Chinese rivals because their cutting-edge models are more capable and are tr…
Chinese AI models are closing the performance gap with US rivals while undercutting them on price, forcing Silicon Valley to cut prices, according to users and analysts. Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 costs US$4.…
Two major labs released dense ~30B parameter multimodal models with Apache 2.0 licenses in August 2026: Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B. Both are designed for local GPU inference on …