Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a model that by early assessments matches Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, built by a team of just 300 people. Even OpenAI strategist Dean W. Ball calls it “very good,” but, of course, warns that a world dominated by open-weight models would amount to “AI communism.” The release is reigniting the debate over how much computing power actually matters and whether U.S. export controls are working.
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Just like Deepseek, China’s Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage
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