Cheaper Chinese open-weight models may just need to prove themselves good enough for businesses to adopt
UP ONE day, down the other. That pretty much sums up the US stock market – and my corresponding blood pressure – these days as investors try to work out whether the artificial intelligence boom is a bubble waiting to burst.
One development that made waves was the unveiling of Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 open-weight model on Jul 17, which reportedly rivals frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI at a fraction of the cost.
Much of the AI race has been framed as a contest over who can build the smartest model. But that may no longer be the right question to ask.
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