A Chinese Pink Floyd fan is giving Claude and Chat their own DeepSeek moment

Moonshot's Kimi K3, a Chinese open-source AI model, is matching or exceeding Claude and ChatGPT in coding tasks at lower cost, marking another competitive breakthrough from Chinese startups in generative AI despite US export restrictions.

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