The New China AI Trifecta

Three Chinese AI labs—Moonshot AI, ZAI (Zhipu AI), and MiniMax—have rapidly emerged as leaders in open-source LLM development, challenging closed-source models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Moonshot AI pioneered quantization-aware training with Kimi K2 Thinking, achieving state-of-the-art performance while optimizing for Show more