Chinese AI Open Weights Grow Safer as American AI Becomes Dead Weight
Chinese open-source models are a cheese in a CCP mousetrap. Kimi K3 just brought us very close to a world in which the US AI labs are no longer ahead. Both the benchmarks—LMArena and Artificial Analysis—and actual experiences with it are extremely positive.
- ▪Chinese open-source models are a cheese in a CCP mousetrap.
- ▪Kimi K3 just brought us very close to a world in which the US AI labs are no longer ahead.
- ▪Both the benchmarks—LMArena and Artificial Analysis—and actual experiences with it are extremely positive.
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Security Chinese AI Open Weights Grow Safer as American AI Becomes Dead Weight July 19, 2026 Davi Ottenheimer Leave a comment Daniel Miessler published a FUD-addled post on July 18 arguing that Chinese AI open weight models are “cheese in a CCP mousetrap“: subsidized giveaways engineered to break the American AI labs and the market priced on their dominance, after which Taiwan votes itself into the People’s Republic. Chinese open-source models are a cheese in a CCP mousetrap. Kimi K3 just brought us very close to a world in which the US AI labs are no longer ahead. Both the benchmarks—LMArena and Artificial Analysis—and actual experiences with it are extremely positive. I don’t think it’s quite as good as people are saying, but it is at least on par with Opus 4.8 in many areas.
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