Trump under pressure from all sides over
People visit the Moonshot AI stand, featuring Kimi K3, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference
U.S. President Donald Trump is under pressure to respond to the increasing success of Chinese AI models that many companies prefer to the more powerful, but pricier, U.S. versions from Anthropic or OpenAI.
The issue came to the fore this week with the release of Kimi K3 by Moonshot, which White House officials say was developed by stealing the capabilities of Anthropic's most powerful model through a process called distillation.
The method is widely used across the industry, but U.S. officials say Chinese firms have deployed it at scale to illicitly copy proprietary American systems.
