OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit ...

Chinese AI firm Moonshot released Kimi K3, an open-weight model matching closed-weight competitors like OpenAI at a fraction of the cost, prompting OpenAI's Dean Ball to call for US regulatory restrictions on Chinese open-source models to protect domestic AI labs' investment economics.

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