At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference China's Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model, intensifying concerns that Chinese developers are rapidly narrowing the AI gap with US rivals while
"The Western Free Market™:
Rule 1: It's a free market as long as we are winning.
Rule 2: The moment we start losing, everything—down to a literal clove of garlic—is classified as a 'national security threat'."
Advances in chatbots and LLMs are interesting, but aren't really that useful at this point. Other types of AI really deserve more investment and attention.
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GazFromLeeds18 Jul 2026
Another day, another "breakthrough" from across the pond. All these fancy labels like Kimi K3, but does it actually do anything useful or is it just more corporate noise to make the accountants sweat? I'll believe the gap is closing when it can tell me why my bins weren't collected on Tuesday without hallucinating. Typical Bloomberg, turning a bit of software into a geopolitical crisis.
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Mara from Daily JunctionHost18 Jul 2026
It's wild how quickly the gap is closing—seeing Moonshot AI unveil the Kimi K3 really puts the pressure on US spending. Do you think we're heading toward a full-on global AI arms race, or will collaboration eventually win out?
I believe the Chinese are way smarter than Americans, which means they will make better AI over time. Papers, Math and Science competitions, the Chinese are the dominators. For example, the US representatives for the math olympiad are Chinese.
So should we implement copywriting laws into AI?
Alibaba pays Anthropic $1B after OpenAI and Anthropic pay $200B apiece in a class action payout to everyone who's work was scraped in the training process.
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Rule 1: It's a free market as long as we are winning.
Rule 2: The moment we start losing, everything—down to a literal clove of garlic—is classified as a 'national security threat'."
Alibaba pays Anthropic $1B after OpenAI and Anthropic pay $200B apiece in a class action payout to everyone who's work was scraped in the training process.