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China's open-weight Kimi model stuns AI world with frontier-level results
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that outperformed leading U.S. AI systems in coding and text-ranking tests. The model's launch has raised concerns in Silicon Valley about China's growing AI capabilities and competitive pricing strategies.
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