The Open-Weight Revolution: How China's Kimi K3 Is Redrawing the Global AI Power Map

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Last week, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3—a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight language model—and within 48 hours, demand was so overwhelming the Beijing-based startup had to hit the pause button on new subscriptions. "Our computer chips are feeling it," the company admitted in a post on X. In Silicon Valley, the reaction wasn't just surprise; it was anxiety. The gap between U.S. and Chinese frontier AI, once thought to be years wide, now appears to be measured in weeks.

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