The launch of Kimi K3 is giving the fight new urgency.

Kimi's K3 model has caught up to the American frontier.

Kimi K3 topped coding leaderboards within a day. Sacks warned about US regulation. Khosla blamed immigration. Marcus questioned $1T in US AI capex vs China's spend.

By Christine Ji and Hannah Pedone

The Trump administration is exploring ways to limit access to advanced Chinese AI models. This move could benefit American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Previous efforts to…