Cheaper, open, intelligent: Chinese AI models gain ground, as they make inroads in the US
Chinese AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 are being adopted by US users and companies for their affordability and efficiency.
US companies such as Coinbase are switching to Chinese AI models to reduce costs, frustrating US tech giants.
The Trump administration accused Moonshot of using 'covert' methods to build Kimi K3 based on Anthropic's Claude Fable, and US politicians claim Chinese startups engage in illicit 'distillation' of models.
Chinese AI models from startups like Z.ai (Zhipu) and Moonshot are nearly as intelligent as frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to experts.
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