We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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—Alan Turing
China-based Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has launched its latest flagship open-weight model GLM-5.3, claiming significant improvements in coding, long-horizon tasks and cybersecurity over its predecessor, along with the discovery of thousands of real-world software vulnerabilities.
China’s Ministry of Commerce has accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” and vowed to take all necessary measures to safeguard its interests, after senior US officials threatened investigations and sanctions against Chinese AI companies, including Moonshot AI, over alleged mass-scale distillation of American frontier models.
More than 20 technology companies, among them Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir, have jointly urged Congress to promote open-weight AI models, arguing that concentrating advanced capability behind a handful of closed systems weakens competition and creates single points of failure.
There has not been any official complaint by Anthropic against Moonshot AI of training their Kimi K3 model through distillation of Claude Fable model.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai closed with 20.36 billion yuan in intended procurement deals, a new intergovernmental AI body signed by 29 countries, and Xi Jinping’s first in-person address a coordinated pitch to the Global South weeks after Washington launched its own AI alliance.
Days after Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the world’s first open-weight 3T model, OpenAI’s Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball described open-weight AI as “full AI communism” and the vision of AI as a state-provided public good as a “dystopian hellscape”.
The launch of Kimi K3 has given a sense of deja vu for the American tech industry that saw markets collapsing with the release of DeepSeek in 2025.
