What Chinese AI model Kimi’s success says about the next phase of US-China AI race

In January 2025, the release of a Chinese artificial intelligence model called DeepSeek R1 drew global attention and briefly triggered market panic. It was a low-cost, quality product that was compared to ChatGPT and other top models from the United States as discussions about AI-related overspending were gaining groun

Artificial intelligenceAmerica's tech ecosystem needs open-weight models to drive growth as AI bubble fears growThe Trump administration and tech companies are taking different views of how to respond to the rise of Chinese AI models. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images)YIFAN YU and CISSY ZHOUJuly

The freedom and lower price tag of open-weight models is turning the heads of business leaders in the west, where the merits have prompted letters from top tech leaders warning against restrictions on open models, despite the potential for security risks.

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union gave Google a slap on th

China’s Moonshot AI has made its latest artificial intelligence model Kimi K3 available for public download, as its open-source strategy and more support for non-Nvidia ecosystems trigger heated debates across Silicon Valley. On Monday, the Chinese AI start-up not only released the model’s “weights” – the underlying pa

Tanvi Pisal, an Indian UX designer, faced job insecurity and back-to-back layoffs in the United States. She hoped for a stable career and permanent residency through an H-1B visa. Her initial job offer was rescinded, and a subsequent role ended abruptly after two weeks. Pisal invested significant personal funds in relo

Why Silicon Valley is divided over Chinese AI as OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia clash over open-source AI, security, innovation and the US-China tech race.

The real problem is not overseas open-source but lack of co-ordination to protect infrastructure in the face of cyber attacks