China's Open-Weight AI Surge Is Forcing a US Reckoning

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<p><em>In the span of weeks in mid-2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 became the world's largest open-weight model and halted signups from demand overload, Alibaba launched a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model, and DeepSeek released successive frontier-class models on domestic Huawei chips, prompting the White House to accuse Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model and Treasury to threaten sanctions on Chinese AI firms. The episode revealed that US export controls on chips have not prevented China from reaching the frontier, and that open-weight releases give Chinese models global reach t

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<p><em>In the span of weeks in mid-2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 became the world's largest open-weight model and halted signups from demand overload, Alibaba launched a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model, and DeepSeek released successive frontier-class models on domestic Huawei chips, prompting the White House to accuse Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model and Treasury to threaten sanctions on Chinese AI firms. The episode revealed that US export controls on chips have not prevented China from reaching the frontier, and that open-weight releases give Chinese models global reach t

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<p><em>In the span of weeks in mid-2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 became the world's largest open-weight model and halted signups from demand overload, Alibaba launched a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model, and DeepSeek released successive frontier-class models on domestic Huawei chips, prompting the White House to accuse Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model and Treasury to threaten sanctions on Chinese AI firms. The episode revealed that US export controls on chips have not prevented China from reaching the frontier, and that open-weight releases give Chinese models global reach t

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China's Open-Weight AI Surge Is Forcing a US Reckoning

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