Kimi K3 is exposing cracks in Trump’s AI coalition

The Chinese model’s rise has ignited a fight over open-source AI and whether Washington should protect America’s frontier labs.

BY Chris Stokel-Walker

The release of Kimi K3, the latest model from Moonshot Labs, a Chinese AI firm founded by a former Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, has shaken both the AI and political worlds. In an instant, the seemingly comfortable lead held by U.S. frontier AI labs over their Chinese competitors appeared to narrow sharply.

K3’s release has rattled the chattering classes in Washington and Silicon Valley. In response, they have begun fighting among themselves.

Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, says Washington had been operating under the........

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