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China’s Kimi K3 ‘significantly below’ US rivals in hacking power, study shows

Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model trails far behind top American rivals in its ability to launch cyberattacks, joint British-US government research shows, challenging Washington’s brewing anxiety over the rapid rise of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence. The model, currently considered China’s most powerful large language model, performs “significantly below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models”, according to a report published on Thursday by the UK Artificial...

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Published: 24 July 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Military & security
Retrieved: 25 July 2026

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ethics.ai (24 July 2026), “China’s Kimi K3 ‘significantly below’ US rivals in hacking power, study shows,” evidence record 13440, https://ethics.ai/record/13440 (originally published by SCMP Tech (HK/CN)).

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