Silicon Valley is freaking out over China's open-source AI strategy

The latest AI model out of China is causing another meltdown in Silicon Valley, highlighting the divide over the right way to run the AI race.
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The Biggest Open AI Model Ever Built Kimi K3 Just Dropped

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 packs 2.8 trillion parameters and rivals Claude and GPT. Here's what this massive open-source model means for AI in 2026.

Chinese AI has leveled up, and brought renewed focus on the open weight model shift

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released a new model that it says closes the gap with leading U.S. systems. Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance,
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Mira Murati Drops Her First AI Model After Leaving OpenAI—And It's Fully Open Source

Mira Murati's Inkling won't dethrone the best Chinese open-weights models, but it gives Western developers something they haven't had yet.
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Experts Say There’s Now an Open Source AI Model as Scary as Mythos

"We have Mythos at home." The post Experts Say There’s Now an Open Source AI Model as Scary as Mythos appeared first on Futurism.

Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'

An Apache 2.0 designation makes Inkling a true open-source foundation. This gives developers the legal freedom to download, modify, integrate, and commercialize the model weights.

What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention.

GLM-5.2, a new open-source Chinese AI model for long-form coding tasks, is turning heads among Silicon Valley's AI elite.
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Xiaomi open-sources robotics world model behind an 82× data generation speedup

Xiaomi robotics AI model Xiaomi-Robotics-U0 is a 38-billion-parameter open-source world foundation model that generates synthetic robot training data 82 times faster via FlashAR+ acceleration, boosted an independent robot policy's real-world success rate by 26 points,