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technology1 day ago•4 min saved

Yang Zhilin Leads China's Open-Weight AI Push with Kimi K3

Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old cofounder of Moonshot AI, spearheads the development of Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model touted to rival top US models in capability while costing less, signaling a milestone for China in the AI race. Yang’s background spans Tsinghua, Carnegie Mellon, and roles at Google Brain and Meta, with contributions to Huawei’s PanGu and Wu Dao before launching Moonshot AI in 2023. The company has attracted major Chinese investors like Alibaba and Tencent and emphasizes scaling as the path to progress, with Kimi K3 boosting Moonshot AI onto the global stage and sparking discussion about talent mobility and immigration policy in tech’s future landscape.

via Business Insider|

#chinese-ai #kimi-k3 #moonshot-ai

technology3 days ago•1 min saved

Kimi K3: China's Open-Weight Frontier AI Ups the Stakes in AI Race

Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million-token context, reportedly beats leading U.S. models in coding benchmarks and outperforms or ties frontier rivals in Arena tests; priced around $12 per million tokens and with weights due July 27, the release signals cheaper, broader access to frontier AI and intensifies the U.S.–China AI competition, though early results may overstate real-world performance.

via Axios|

#ai-competition #frontier-ai #kimi-k3

technology1 month ago•7 min saved

Nvidia Debuts Nemotron 3 Ultra, Fast Open-Weight AI But China Still Leads

Nvidia unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026, a 550‑billion‑parameter open-weight model that uses mixture‑of‑experts to run with 55 billion active parameters and achieve over 300 tokens per second—three to six times faster than Chinese rivals. Independent testing puts its Intelligence Index at 48, behind Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 at 54, underscoring that China currently leads the open-weight frontier. Nvidia is publishing the weights and training recipes, shipping Ultra on June 4, and has formed the Nemotron Coalition with eight labs to co-develop open frontier models on DGX Cloud. Ultra also features a 1‑million‑token context window and multi-token prediction to speed generation, reflecting Nvidia’s push to close the gap with Chinese models while expanding access via API.

via Decrypt|

#computex-2026 #mixture-of-experts #nemotron-3-ultra