Much like Chinese competitor DeepSeek’s AI model upending Silicon Valley in early 2025, Kimi-K3 sent shockwaves across the industry. Ball also argued that “open-weight models are inherently decelerationist,” a claim that sparked a raging debate in the comments. To Ball, open-weight models hinder the progress of AI by deterring labs from investing more capital in development. “The leading closed labs, already a duopoly in terms of AI model revenue, want the government to eliminate their open source competition.” More on Chinese AI: A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech Industry