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China's Moonshot AI launched its largest model ever — and rival AI stocks plunged
China's Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that outperformed several leading U.S. systems on some benchmarks and priced lower than top-tier American rivals. Rival AI stocks experienced a decline following the announcement.
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