China’s Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 model, an open-source large language model that topped a leading coding benchmark and drew comparisons to cutting-edge systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The launch coincided with President Xi Jinping’s call for global AI cooperation at Shanghai’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, underscoring Beijing’s push to advance domestic AI amid tightened U.S. export controls. Huawei showcased new AI computing hardware, signaling progress in China’s homegrown infrastructure. K3’s pricing undercuts top U.S. offerings, raising competitive pressure, even as accusations of illicit model distillation spotlight growing intellectual-property tensions across the Pacific.
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