TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed the reaction to Moonshot AI's Kimi model, which reignited debates over US competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. The hosts argued the panic echoes the earlier DeepSeek episo...
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Chinese company Moonshot of building its open-weight LLM Kimi K3 by distilling Anthropic's Fable model and using export-banned Nvidia GB300 chips. AI researchers are s...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that sanctions and Entity List designations remain possible after a White House official accused China's Moonshot of industrial-scale distillation of Anthropic's Fable model a...
Chinese firm Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model it says achieves frontier-level performance while still trailing Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, with independent evaluations from Arena.ai and Vals AI corr...
Andy Konwinski, Databricks co-founder, warns that the US is losing AI dominance to China as major American AI labs keep research proprietary while China encourages open-source development. He argues that US companies hoa...
