Why is China’s AI push gaining ground? | Explained

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The story so far: A matter of weeks after Anthropic’s Fable AI model was launched to great acclaim, Chinese firm Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a model that has measured up to the Claude model in most parameters. The notable factor here is that K3, and a clutch of other models made in China, are open-weight and/or open-source, meaning that any company (or well-resourced individual) can run them locally. How is China positioning itself in AI? At the Shanghai World AI Conference on July 17, Chinese president Xi Jinping said that with AI, countries “should adhere to the principle of…

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