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Z.ai Closes In On $1 Billion In Annual Sales, Set To Become First Independent Chinese AI Firm To Hit Milestone

Z.ai Closes In On $1 Billion In Annual Sales, Set To Become First Independent Chinese AI Firm To Hit Milestone

Jul 20, 2026
TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Z.ai is closing in on $1 billion in annual sales, positioning it to become the first independent Chinese AI firm to hit the milestone, fueled by a sixtyfold surge in API revenue and aggressive open-sourcing of its most powerful models — though it remains lossmaking and heavily reliant on state-owned …

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Chinese AI Startup Kimi K3 Tops Global Benchmarks, But Faces Accusations of Large-Scale Model Theft From Anthropic

Chinese AI Startup Kimi K3 Tops Global Benchmarks, But Faces Accusations of Large-Scale Model Theft From Anthropic

Jul 20, 2026
The Deep View

Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is dominating global AI benchmarks across six of seven frontend domains, outperforming giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, but the achievement is overshadowed by serious accusations that Moonshot used over 16 million fraudulent exchanges with Anthropic's Claude to illegally distill its model's capabilities.

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Mira Murati's Thinking Labs Launches 975B-Parameter Open-Weight AI Model Inkling Amid Fierce Competition From Chinese Labs

Mira Murati's Thinking Labs Launches 975B-Parameter Open-Weight AI Model Inkling Amid Fierce Competition From Chinese Labs

Jul 17, 2026
The Deep View

Mira Murati's Thinking Labs debuts Inkling, a massive 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, and audio with a one-million token context window, but it immediately faces stiff competition from Chinese labs like Kimi, whose K3 model boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and already outperforms it on benchmarks.

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