China’s Open-Weight AI Strategy: Why Giving Away Models Could Reshape the Global AI Race
Reading Time: 5 minutesMoonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has alarmed Silicon Valley by allegedly matching top US AI models at a fraction of the cost — and then releasing the model’s weights for free while explicitly targeting American developers. The Verge’s analysis explores how China’s open-weight AI strategy could undermine the business model of closed US AI companies and reshape the global AI landscape.