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UK AISI and US CAISI found Kimi K3 scores 32.2% on an exploit-development benchmark against 76.2% for top US models, a gap that complicates both White House alarm and its own distillation accusation against Moonshot.
DeepSeek suspended a second funding round targeting a valuation above $70 billion after comments attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng went viral, days before a planned mainland China IPO.
Twenty-five companies signed an open letter urging the White House not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, using Jensen Huang's first-ever X post to deliver it.
InclusionAI's Ling-3.0-flash packs 124B parameters into a 5.1B-active hybrid-linear MoE that Ant Group claims matches its 1T flagship - but shipped with zero independently verifiable benchmark numbers.
InclusionAI's Ling-3.0-flash quietly went live with 124B parameters and 5.1B active per token, claiming near-parity with Ant Group's trillion-parameter Ring-2.6-1T flagship.
White House tech policy chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI distilled Claude Fable 5 to build Kimi K3, and Treasury threatens sanctions over the claim.
AlayaWorld is a 15B open-weight video diffusion world model from Alaya Lab that sustains interactive, camera-controllable environments past 60 seconds.
DeepSeek-R1 is the 671B-parameter open-weight reasoning model that matched OpenAI o1 on math and coding benchmarks and triggered a $589 billion single-day drop in Nvidia's market cap in January 2025.
OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.
MiniMax's Hailuo 02 pairs a physics-aware architecture with some of the cheapest per-second video pricing in the industry, though newer rivals have since passed it on raw quality.
Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal MoE model claims to trail only Claude Fable 5, but ships with no model card, no benchmark table, and no confirmed pricing.
Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.
