China's Open-Weight AI narrows US lead as Silicon Valley workers push back

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China’s open-weight AI models, including Moonshot’s Kimi K3, are narrowing the US lead as Google delays Gemini 3.5; with subsidized Chinese compute enabling cheap, accessible models, policymakers and markets react, while Silicon Valley workers mobilize over AI-driven layoffs and job security.
- Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race The Guardian
- Why Silicon Valley Can’t Stop Looking Over Its Shoulder at China The New York Times
- China's 'open' AI is a terrible business, and nothing like open-source software Business Insider
- China’s Mythos Moment ChinaTalk
- As US-Chinese AI model gap narrows, what next for Washington? South China Morning Post
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