Why is China’s AI push gaining ground? | Explained
China is rapidly advancing its AI capabilities by focusing on open-source and open-weight models to bypass U.S. chip export restrictions. Despite hardware limitations, Chinese firms like Moonshot AI and Alibaba are successfully deploying high-parameter models that compete with Western counterparts.
A matter of weeks after Anthropic’s Fable AI model was launched to great acclaim, Chinese firm Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a model that has measured up to the Claude model in most parameters. The notable factor here is that K3, and a clutch of other models made in China, are open-weight and/or open-source, meaning that any company (or well-resourced individual) can run them locally.
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