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Story summary
- Chinese AI startups released Moonshot’s Kimi K3 in July and Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 in mid-June, prompting U.S. policy debate.
- Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos said Chinese models lag U.S. leaders but are narrowing the gap.
- Omdia analyst Lian Jye Su noted Chinese AI models are open-source, unlike closed-source U.S. systems.
- Sensor Tower reported Kimi K3 was downloaded over 930,000 times, including 86,000 U.S. downloads, a 387% jump.
