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China’s Powerful New Moonshot AI Model Closes Gap With US Rivals

Bloomberg Technology Friday 17 July 2026, 07:01 UTC By Jeanny Yu and Sunny Bangia 1 min read
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China’s Powerful New Moonshot AI Model Closes Gap With US Rivals Chinese AI pioneer Moonshot touted a model that performs on par with some of the top-tier platforms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, the latest sign that the Asian country’s artificial intelligence labs are closing a technology gap with the US. Moonshot released the Kimi K3 Friday, touting benchmarks comparable to some of the US labs’ best offerings. The open-weight model outperforms all rivals except Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5...

China’s Powerful New Moonshot AI Model Closes Gap With US Rivals Chinese AI pioneer Moonshot touted a model that performs on par with some of the top-tier platforms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, the latest sign that the Asian country’s artificial intelligence labs are closing a technology gap with the US. Moonshot released the Kimi K3 Friday, touting benchmarks comparable to some of the US labs’ best offerings. The open-weight model outperforms all rivals except Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on overall capability, it said.
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