Kimi K3 Signals a New Threat to US AI Dominance
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Introduction
The world moved today.
Something which I never thought would happen until the end of the year - maybe December 2026 - happened today.
An Open Weights Chinese Large Language Model matched Frontier American LLMs.
And in several benchmarks, beat them.
This is a world-shaking event.
A world-changing event.
Let me introduce you to Kimi K3.
And let me tell you why I believe this is the beginning of the end for American Closed-Source LLMs!
TL;DR
Kimi K3 is the first Chinese model to match American Frontier LLMs - at 70% less cost.
US LLMs are expensive to run - because of the 75% profit margin of Nvidia AI Chips.
The US let domestic companies buy Nvidia chips.
Banned China from using them.
China innovated and built its own silicon at much cheaper rates.
Now they serve frontier-class models,...
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