Moonshot AI’s 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model approaches leading US systems on major benchmarks while offering lower prices, raising questions over whether China’s open-model strategy could weaken America’s technological lead

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a model that by early assessments matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8, built by a team of just 300 people. Even OpenAI strategist Dean W. Ball calls it…

David Sacks warns US is losing the AI race after Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model priced 80% cheaper than Anthropic's Fable 5.