Surge in popularity of China-origin open-source models spurs anxiety in Washington

The latest AI model out of China is causing another meltdown in Silicon Valley, highlighting the divide over the right way to run the AI race.

Chinese start-up pauses Kimi K3 subscriptions due to surging demand and compute shortages, highlighting the country’s AI chip challenges.

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

Trump administration weighs new AI regulations after Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launch. The 2.8 trillion parameter model beat US competitors, rattling markets.

Analysts say Beijing-based start-up Moonshot’s 2.8 trillion-parameter large language model could narrow the gap with the US within ‘weeks’.

The Trump administration weighs banning Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 after they captured 46.4% of routed tokens on OpenRouter, surpassing US alternatives.

Kimi K3 is China's hottest AI model, but a new report suggests Washington officials are considering a ban on it, and possibly all Chinese AI models.

Kimi K3 beats most AI models, except OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. Moonshot is now seeking a valuation of over $30 billion ahead of an IPO.

Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 should come as no surprise.

New model from Moonshot AI is ‘extremely close’ to OpenAI’s flagship after ‘very big jump’ in capabilities, researcher says.

Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3

China's cheap open-source AI models are a Trojan horse for global dependency, censorship, and geopolitical leverage over the West.

The White House accuses Moonshot AI of misusing Nvidia chips and US AI models to build Kimi K3, the world's largest open-weight model with 2.8

"We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model," a top White House official wrote on X.

Moonshot AI's alleged covert distillation of Anthropic's Fable sparks U.S.-China AI tensions, posing risks and opportunities for investors.

Michael Kratsios, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director, writes on X that Moonshot accessed Nvidia’s high-end GB300 processors in Thailand, which are…

A top White House official on Wednesday accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of covertly copying Anthropic's most advanced model to build its Kimi K3.

Michael Kratsios alleges Beijing-based company targeted Anthropic’s most powerful model, Claude Fable 5, through large-scale ‘distillation’.

The allegations come as Moonshot AI’s newest model, Kimi K3, has emerged as one of China’s strongest competitors to leading American AI systems.

This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot, accusing them of stealing intellectual property…