Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will carefully examine open source AI models created overseas, including those from China, and take action on any evidence of intellectual property theft from US companies.

Hugging Face experienced one of the first document autonomous AI cyber attacks. It said American models were not up to the task of defending it, while GLM 5.2 from China's Z.ai saved the day.

Mira Murati's Inkling won't dethrone the best Chinese open-weights models, but it gives Western developers something they haven't had yet.

American AI labs view Chinese open-source models as essentially stolen goods, built with the help of American frontier models to generate synthetic training data — a process known as distillation.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for more open-source AI in a speech on Thursday. He encouraged "open-source, openness, collaboration, and sharing."

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source AI model from China that rivals OpenAI, Anthropic and other top U.S. systems in frontier AI benchmarks.

Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 raises China’s open-model ambitions while posing major infrastructure and cost questio

Hugging Face uses open weights Z.ai GLM 5.2 to defend against attacker after commercial frontier model refusal - SiliconANGLE

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released a new model that it says closes the gap with leading U.S. systems. Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance,

The Trump administration is considering placing restrictions that could stop US companies from running cutting-edge Chinese open-source AI models, a step that would hand OpenAI and Anthropic a stronger hold over the domestic market,