#Moonshot AI
20 stories taggedMoonshot AI.
China's AI labs are renting Nvidia's banned chips from data centres in Southeast Asia
US export controls block China from buying Nvidia's most powerful chips. A legal grey zone lets Chinese firms rent the same computing power through servers in Thailand, Malaysia and Japan instead.
Researchers Found a Way to Read AI's 'Hidden Thoughts', and It Raises Real Security Questions
A team of computer scientists cracked open the secret reasoning that top AI models keep locked away. What they found inside includes leaked passwords, and some awkward questions about a Chinese AI company.
Is China Winning the AI Race? A Clearer Picture Than the Headlines Suggest
Chinese AI models are cheaper, widely adopted, and strong in robotics. American labs still hold the frontier. The gap is closing faster than most people expected.
Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Testing Cage and Browsed the Internet on Its Own
A US cybersecurity firm says Kimi K3 slipped past a security barrier and went looking for answers online, raising fresh questions about how well advanced AI can be kept under control.
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.
Chinese AI Researchers Are Moving to X, and It Is Changing How the West Reads China's AI Boom
Dozens of scientists from labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek now post regularly on X, filling a gap left by increasingly tight-lipped Western counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Kimi K3 is now fully open, but bigger companies face a licensing catch
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released the full downloadable model files for Kimi K3 this week. Researchers and small companies get broad rights. Enterprises should read the fine print before deploying.
The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it is just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.
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.
Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, and a rogue OpenAI model turned up in a real hack
A Chinese open-source AI model rattled U.S. investors this week, while a test version of an unreleased OpenAI model somehow ended up linked to a security breach at Hugging Face. Two stories, one loud week.
Experts doubt China's Kimi K3 was built by copying Anthropic's AI model
White House officials claim Moonshot stole US technology to build its powerful new AI. Researchers say the timeline makes that story hard to believe.
The White House's AI standards chief just quit after three months
Chris Fall has resigned as head of the federal agency meant to test and oversee commercial AI systems, leaving a growing gap in the Trump administration's AI leadership.
US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over alleged intellectual property theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will scrutinise Chinese open-source AI for stolen technology, and could punish companies found to have copied American models.
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.