Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.
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Kimi K3 topped Arena’s coding leaderboard in 24 hours. Trump advisor Sacks warned the US is losing. Khosla blamed immigration. A Wall Street CIO called it bad news for closed AI labs.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and economic fallout is a story of its own.
David Sacks, Trump’s former AI czar and current cochair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, called the release “concerning” and said it was the first time a Chinese model had taken the top coding spot. He blamed US regulatory self-harm: blocking data centres, layering on state regulations,...
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