Is China replacing the U.S. as the world’s AI touchpoint thanks to Kimi K3?

The release of Kimi K3, an artificial intelligence model created by a former computer science graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, has rocked parts of social media and the AI commentariat. The model, developed by Moonshot AI—a Chinese lab cofounded by that ex-student, Yang Zhilin—has wowed many observers with its capabilities. “Kimi K3 demonstrates the U.S. moat in building frontier AI software is not as durable as many of us had hoped,” says Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at the American En

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