Chinese AI startup Kimi K3 sends U.S. chip stocks tumbling

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a powerful open-weight model that rivals premium Western counterparts like those from OpenAI and Anthropic, causing US chip stocks to fall. This reflects a broader Chinese national strategy favouring open-source AI to gain global influence, leading to a pricing 'race to the bottom' as the cost and performance gap between open and closed models rapidly shrinks.

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