Why China is giving away its best AI models
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Open-weight Chinese models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 that rival US systems at lower cost are a geopolitical move as much as a technical one—driving adoption and ecosystem lock-in abroad. If you're standardizing on a model family, you now have to factor export controls, jurisdictional risk, and long-term support into what used to be a pure capability decision.
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