Today's stories Sources: Moonshot AI is exploring dual Hong Kong and Shanghai listings for greater capital and exposure, amid the weaker performance of AI stocks in Hong Kong T Techmeme 5h ago This week U.S. Agencies Issue Stern Rebuke of China-Based AI Companies Over Alleged Distillation G E A Covered by 3 sources 1d ago Export controls went after China’s chips. They never touched the capital, and Moonshot is reportedly seeking $5bn. T The Next Web 6d ago Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings R Rest of World 6d ago This month Z.AI Misses Lofty Sales Estimates As China AI Brawl Worsens B T Covered by 2 sources 10d ago Moonshot and Nvidia Talks Show Chinese AI Models Moving into the Enterprise H Hacker News 13d ago Moonshot AI in Talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 Revenue Sharing H Hacker News 15d ago Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3 T The Next Web 15d ago I Tried Kimi Agent and Here’s What I Found K KDnuggets 16d ago GLM-5.3 Scores 60 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Matching Kimi K3 U Unite.AI 23d ago Testing Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Inside Claude Code H Hacker News 25d ago A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts W H Covered by 2 sources 30d ago The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk T TechCrunch Aug 9 One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment W E G Covered by 3 sources Aug 7 How a Frontier Model Gets Built, Read from the Kimi K3 Report T Towards Data Science Aug 5 China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House T The Guardian Aug 1 Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X W Wired Jul 31 Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS A AWS Blog Jul 30 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook R Rest of World Jul 30 Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training M MarkTechPost Jul 30 Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential Z ZDNet Jul 29 Moonshot AI Blows Past Its Funding Target Ahead of a Hong Kong IPO U Unite.AI Jul 29 Sam Altman on model distillation: “This is not in my top ten list of worries” T The New Stack (AI) Jul 28 China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures T The Next Web Jul 28 Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3 M MarkTechPost Jul 27 Why China is giving away its best AI models T S L Covered by 3 sources Jul 27 Moonshot Opens Kimi K3 Weights Under a Revenue-Tiered License U Unite.AI Jul 27 Is KimiClaw a Useful Tool? K KDnuggets Jul 27 Kimi K3 and Kimi K3 Fast with ZDR and US-based providers now on AI Gateway V Vercel Jul 27 Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI T TechCrunch Jul 26 China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm W Wired Jul 24 As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions T G Covered by 2 sources Jul 24 OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation T The Next Web Jul 22 Choose Your Fighter: Nvidia CEO and Jim Cramer Offer Dueling Visions of AI’s Future G Gizmodo Jul 22 China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook W Wired Jul 22 Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous T TechCrunch Jul 22 Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach T The Guardian Jul 22 Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there T The Next Web Jul 22 Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards. T T Covered by 2 sources Jul 22 It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots F Futurism Jul 21 US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft T G Covered by 2 sources Jul 21 OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete F G T +1 Covered by 4 sources Jul 20 Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups T The Next Web Jul 20 China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance T The Verge Jul 20 Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation T The Next Web Jul 19 Kimi: Threat or menace? T TechCrunch Jul 18 Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, the world’s largest open AI model T The Next Web Jul 17 Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 T G F Covered by 3 sources Jul 16 Moonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race. T The Next Web Jun 8 Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories T T Covered by 2 sources May 7 Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi T TechCrunch Mar 22 That's everything we have on Moonshot AI right now