Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to open-source Chinese AI models or risk crippling the next generation of American startups. On Wednesday, the newly formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other members
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
There is one founder making waves in the AI industry who is not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Dario Amodei. Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which caught the attention of Silicon Valley this week.
Jason Calacanis, venture capitalist and co-host of the “All-In Podcast,” said the pace of AI progress is accelerating and made some bold predictions. “It’s happening folks,” Calacanis wrote on He argued that the field has moved faster in the last 30 days, by a dozen players, than the year before, with open source models “composite”
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race. Kimi K3, unveiled Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, at a lower cost. The company plans to release weights for
