Moonshot’s newest release narrows US-China AI model development gap: analysts

Kimi K2.5 raises questions about the potency of US controls on advanced chips to constrain China's AI efforts, Brookings' ...

China’s Alibaba, Moonshot claim latest flagship AI models challenge OpenAI, Google

Alibaba says Qwen3-Max-Thinking is its 'best model so far', while Moonshot calls Kimi K2.5 the world's most powerful open-source model Alibaba Group Holding and Moonshot AI have unveiled their latest ...
Foreign Policy Research InstituteOpinion

The US AI Acceleration Plan vs China’s Diffusion Model

From the perspective of US-China competition, the significance is not simply that Washington wants more AI. It is that the ...
CNBC

China's AI models lag their U.S. counterparts by 6 to 9 months, says former head of Google China

Chinese artificial intelligence models may be at least half a year behind those made in the U.S., but Chinese AI apps will likely take off much faster, said Kai-Fu Lee, founder of the startup 01.AI ...
The Diplomat

What Democracies Get Wrong About Chinese AI

Democracies are increasingly anxious about China’s AI rise, but not always clear about what exactly is at stake. The sudden emergence earlier this year of DeepSeek, China’s most popular open-weight ...
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Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on the back of Meta's Llama, Reuters reports

Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to ...