#AI competition
9 stories taggedAI competition.
The West Kept Waiting for China to Fail. Then China Shipped a Free AI That Rivals America's Best.
Chinese AI models are arriving fast, free, and competitive with the most expensive US systems. What that means for the global tech race, and what Britain might learn from it.
OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals win over cost-conscious customers
A price war is breaking out at the top of the AI industry. American labs are cutting what they charge for their models, and the trigger is clear: cheaper tools from China are pulling customers away.
Google's AI Brain Drain: What the Leadership Shake-Up Actually Means
Several of Google's most prominent AI researchers have moved on, including computing legend Jeff Dean. Is this a sign of trouble, or something more complicated?
Alibaba's Qwen3 Max Is a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Model That Rivals the Best From Anthropic and OpenAI
China's biggest tech company just released a free, open-weight AI model it says matches Anthropic's flagship on most tests. The weights drop next week.
Microsoft is quietly building a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, using their own warnings against them
CEO Satya Nadella used this week's earnings call to pitch Microsoft's own AI models and chips as a cheaper, safer alternative to the very labs his company invested in.
China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That is forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they have long avoided.
Why Chinese AI keeps sending Silicon Valley into a spin
Moonshot AI's Kimi model touched off another weekend of panic in the tech industry. The real story is less about the model and more about who benefits from the fear.
Two Chinese AI Models Just Rattled Wall Street. Here Is What Is Actually New.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8 claim to match the best American AI models at a fraction of the cost. The shock is less about the models themselves and more about how long the world ignored the warning signs.
China's Kimi K3 Is the Biggest AI Model to Come Out of China Yet, and It's Rattling the Market
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters, beats several top US models on key tests, and sent rival Chinese AI stocks tumbling on the same day it launched.