Meet KIMI - The new Beijing based AI model causing a stir

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source Chinese AI model, suspended new subscriptions within 48 hours of launch due to overwhelming demand that exceeded compute capacity. The release highlights China's rapid progress in frontier AI and intensifies US-China competition as Chinese models gain global traction at lower costs.

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