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Kimi K3 ranks fifth among 215 AI models, according to public benchmark tracker BenchLM.

Distillation lets AI companies train new models using existing ones. The White House says Chinese firms are using it to gain an edge, raising questions about competition and intellectual property.

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union…

The company said tests showed that joint optimization across chips, the inference platform, and the model cut first-token latency.

New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.

Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development.

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The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.

These AI officials are at the mercy of technical breakthroughs from abroad, politics and the onslaught of AI disruption

A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal cybersecurity…

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to…

According to a report by IT Home, DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue.

The Chinese robotics company is targeting commercial, industrial and research applications as it looks to move embodied AI from one-off demonstrations to full-scale applications.

As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies.

Looking ahead just a short time, Apple could hold a powerful position in AI where it most makes sense: deployment. Not only will the company offer up its own AI models for the kind of tasks millions use ChatGPT to do today, but it will provide more sophisticated on-device agentic models to help…

Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI stunned developers on Thursday with a massive new model that may rival the best American systems at a fraction of the cost. Why it matters: Kimi K3's early performance is fueling awe across the AI world. and alarm in Silicon Valley and Washington.

In Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, AI is as much a part of daily life as reporting a pothole or making a doctor's appointment or paying a parking ticket. because AI does all that for you.

Apple’s iOS 27/macOS 27 cycle is revealing something new: AI is only as good as the operating system that supports it. The latest beta releases show that after two years in which the company has promised to become AI-native, testers finally believe it’s happening as Apple prioritizes improved…

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VibeThinker-3B, a 3B MIT-licensed reasoning model matching DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on verifiable benchmarks. The post VibeThinker-3B: A 3B Dense Reasoning Model Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B With the Spectrum-to-Signal Post-Training Pipeline appeared first on MarkTechPost.