US aims to dominate AI but China’s open-source approach is unstoppable

With China’s tech sector releasing two of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, industry insiders and policymakers are over the moon. Their American counterparts, though, are alarmed. Chinese AI start-up Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max-Preview have been called a second DeepSeek moment, but this time, it’s a one-two punch. China is catching up with the United States in the AI race more quickly than previously estimated. Its AI models charge a fraction of the fees...