Shutterstock / Futurism Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto the scene. The open-weight model impressed with early benchmark results, trading blows with some of the most advanced closed-weight ones being developed by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic — and at a fraction of the cost. Much like Chinese competitor DeepSeek’s AI model upending Silicon Valley in early 2025, Kimi-K