American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source

Momentum builds for Chinese models

When even US lawyers are comfortable with Chinese AI, it’s a sign that companies’ fears about security and censorship are abating. Legal AI startup Harvey on Tuesday announced a new in-house model, built in part using Moonshot’s Kimi K3. And data company Snowflake added models from DeepSeek and Z.ai to its platform, allowing customers to have tasks automatically routed to those models when they’re the cheapest or best-performing option.“We see a…

American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source

The AI industry has been rocked by recent large-language model (LLM) releases from Chinese labs, most notably the Kimi K3 model from Moonshot. K3 performed similarly to Anthropic’s Fable model on AI benchmarks, and its release follows the established norm among Chinese labs of being open-weights—that is, the model itself is given away online for others to run on their own hardware. The release of K3 came at an especially notable time, just a wee…