China’s Kimi K3 has become the latest AI sensation, generating so much interest that developer Moonshot AI temporarily suspended new subscriptions just days after launch. “K3 represented another example where the ability of China’s leading AI labs to keep pace with the US frontier has surprised global investors,” Bernstein analysts led by Robin Zhu wrote
Every once in a while, a Chinese company releases a new AI model and Americans freak out. That’s what happened last week when China’s Moonshot AI unveiled the Kimi K3, which surpassed a number of notable benchmarks. By most accounts, the Kimi K3 rivals some leading US models for a fraction of the cost. The
