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China Just Shipped Opus 4.8-Level Agentic Coding for One-Sixth the Price

China's Moonshot AI released an open-weights coding model with performance comparable to Opus 4.8 at one-sixth the cost, intensifying global AI competition.

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China just struck again on the AI release curve. A new open-weights coding model from Moonshot AI (known for K2.6 Continue reading on Towards AI »

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