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Open or closed, nobody in AI is turning a profit right now — they're just choosing how to lose money
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U.S. chip stocks
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, and a Chinese startup most people had never heard of is the reason why.
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Moonshot AI put out an open-weight model
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called Kimi K3
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earlier this month that seemed to match what Anthropic and OpenAI charge a premium for. The semiconductor index slid into a bear market in response. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this happened in
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2025 with DeepSeek
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, when a different Chinese lab showed up with a cheaper model that worked and hit the chip stocks the same way.
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By last week, some analysts were walking the DeepSeek moment
2.0 back, pointing out that a model Kimi's size still needs a lot of compute to run properly, making it less far ahead than it appeared at first blush. But the instinct to reach for that comparison, even a slightly premature one, says something about how fragile the AI story has gotten.
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Right now there are basically two models on offer.
American labs and tech companies building frontier models are mostly staying closed, and they are doing it out of both business logic and government pressure.
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But Mark Zuckerberg,
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talking
about democratizing AI
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, first spent around $100 billion trying to build Llama into a genuinely open alternative to what Anthropic and OpenAI were charging for — intelligence anyone could download and run themselves, no subscription required.
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It didn't work. The model that came out the other end was too slow and too unwieldy for most people to bother with, and Meta shelved it and
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="reoriented its AI teams towards building closed systems" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
reoriented its AI teams towards building closed systems
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.
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China's read on this moment is the opposite. Xi Jinping
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="recently told an audience that his country" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
recently told an audience that his country
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<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF">
should treat "open source, openness, collaboration and sharing" as a matter of national strategy in AI, not a side preference, and the labs have followed that lead even when
it costs them.
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Moonshot's Kimi K3 is open weight. Z.ai's
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GLM 5.2 is open weight
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. Alibaba, which had actually
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="pulled back to closed models" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
pulled back to closed models
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<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF">
on its most powerful releases earlier this year, reversed course again after Xi's
speech and announced its next flagship, Qwen3.8 Max,
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="will eventually go open" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
will eventually go open
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too.
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None of these companies are making money doing this yet, but the payoff
was never supposed to be the balance sheet. This is a bet on influence and reach that plays out over years, not quarters or IPO dates.
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It's already working by that measure. Roughly
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="a third of all global AI usage" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
a third of all global AI usage
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now runs on Chinese open source models, and in markets like Nigeria, Malaysia and Brazil, developers can build on them for more than 90 percent less than it would cost to build on OpenAI.
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For Washington, that adoption curve looks less like a business problem and more like the next space race, one where influence and infrastructure matter as much as who has the best model. The Trump administration has reportedly
considered
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="banning Chinese models outright to slow it down" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
banning Chinese models outright to slow it down
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.
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Some voices close to the administration
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argue the open Chinese models are unacceptably risky
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and should be restricted on national security grounds.
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Others, including venture capitalists
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<a data-air-original-link-color="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-linktext="who otherwise largely support the administration" data-linktype="Normal" style="color:#168DD9;background-color:#FFFFFF" target="_blank">
who otherwise largely support the administration
</a>
<span style="color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF">
, argue that
framing is really about protecting Anthropic and OpenAI's pricing power, dressed up as a safety concern.
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