Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark

The release of Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model has triggered a sell-off in AI and semiconductor stocks by challenging the assumption that frontier AI capability remains scarce and expensive. Bitcoin is increasingly sensitive to these market shifts, as the crypto industry's pivot toward AI data center infrastructure makes it vulnerable to changes in the AI capital cycle.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Thursday , and by Friday morning, AI and semiconductor stocks were selling off across Asia as traders dubbed it a "Kimi moment," an echo of the DeepSeek shock that erased roughly $600 billion from Nvidia's market value in a single session.
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