As Chinese AI startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a new model touted to be almost as advanced as Claude Fable 5 or GPT 5.6 Sol, a major debate erupted on social media as to how this could have been the US's success and not China's, as Moonshot founder Yang Zhilin did his PhD from the US but then went back to China.

US stocks take hit after China-based start-up's AI model debuts

With the release of its latest model, Moonshot AI is quickly catching up to U.S. firms Anthropic and OpenAI.

Kimi K3, a new artificial intelligence program from a Chinese startup called Moonshot AI, stunned the US tech industry on Friday, setting off fresh discussion over the China-US…