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Are DeepSeek moments now the new normal?
China’s Moonshot AI’s performance and development cost raise questions about Silicon Valley tech giants’ huge outlays.
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China’s low-cost, open-source approach to artificial intelligence development, as exemplified by DeepSeek and now Moonshot, offers a challenge to the US model.
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Catherine Thorbecke
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A little-known Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company recently released an open-source reasoning model that challenged Western dominance and was developed at a fraction of the cost. And no, it’s not DeepSeek.
When Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based laboratory, launched Kimi K2 Thinking earlier in November, it went viral in tech circles.
