China is not beating the U.S. in the artificial intelligence race, at least not yet. But China’s AI products are both cheaper and good enough that a number of American AI users are shifting away from homegrown products. Enter a Silicon Valley panic. The U.S. government may take action, and a new Chinese model — Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 — may be the trip wire.

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