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A Free, Open Chinese AI Just Matched America's Best — and Got So Popular It Had to Lock Its Doors
Season 2026
Episode 124
Published 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model it calls 'Open Frontier Intelligence' that rivals OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. It became the first Chinese model to top a major coding benchmark, and demand was so high that Moonshot had to gate new users because its GPUs were overwhelmed.
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