Chinese AI firm Moonshot unveils powerful model with capabilities close to Anthropic, OpenAI

Chinese firm Moonshot has unveiled a new open-source AI model with capabilities similar to those of Anthropic and OpenAI – ...

American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models

AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models.

Lawmakers probe growing use of Chinese AI models in U.S. companies

An ongoing House Committee investigation is probing the risks involved in the rise of AI built in China.

Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge

Recent model releases from Chinese companies including DeepSeek and Z.ai are seen by many as highly competitive compared to ...
Opinion

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.
csis.org

What to Know About Chinese AI Models

Recent Chinese AI models are doing well on major benchmarks. The most recent GLM-5.2 model from Z.ai lab performs near the top U.S. closed models in coding and agent tasks. The earlier DeepSeek-R1 ...
ZDNet

A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 - and it's free

Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI ...

A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf

Since DeepSeek shocked markets early last year with its cheap but powerful AI model, global consumers have been faced with a choice: Chinese offerings with lower prices and less capability or OpenAI ...
TechRepublic

The Chinese AI Surge: One Model Just Matched (or Beat) Claude and GPT in Safety Tests

A new red-team analysis reveals how leading Chinese open-source AI models stack up on safety, performance, and jailbreak resistance. As open-source generative AI models continue to proliferate, it’s ...
Forbes

Chinese AI Model Developer Kimi Raising Funds Valuing It At $20 Billion

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Kimi founder Yang Zhilin. Kimi, the Chinese AI model startup also known as Moonshot AI, is ...
VentureBeat

Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI

The $29.3 billion AI coding tool just got caught with its provenance showing. When Cursor launched Composer 2 last week — calling it "frontier-level coding intelligence" — it presented the model as ...
The Economist

Chinese AI models are popular. But can they make money?

In the year since DeepSeek, a little-known artificial-intelligence lab from China, shocked the world with a whizzy new model, the country’s clout in AI has only grown. It is now the undisputed global ...