Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty The latest large language model (LLM) built in China is impressing scientists with its size and capabilities. Last week, Beijing-based Moonshot AI introduced ‘Kimi K3’, a powerful reasoning LLM that can handle large expanses of text. The company’s own tests found that the K3 can match or outperform rival American models
In New York City’s Times Square, one of the busiest pedestrian intersections in the world, Wang Wang’s photographs appear on a giant digital screen every 35 minutes. One caption reads: “She was loved. She wanted to live. She should still be here.” Similar billboards have been placed on a building near Taipei 101, an iconic
A White House adviser accused China’s Moonshot AI of a “large-scale” effort to steal the capabilities of leading American artificial intelligence (AI) models. US President Donald Trump’s Science and Technology Advisor Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation, when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a
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
A collection of poems, some scribbled on scraps of paper between food deliveries, has earned Wang Jibing one of China’s highest literary honors. Low Flight, inspired by the everyday challenges faced by delivery drivers, has taken home the Lu Xun Literary Prize, named after a writer who has been referred to as the father of
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.