China’s Moonshot threatens West with ‘full AI communism’

The unveiling of Kimi K3, an open-source AI model developed by Chinese company Moonshot, has rattled stock markets and Western tech executives amid fears that it will challenge business models and US tech supremacy.

The releases come as Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, seeks to promote Chinese AI across the developing world in a move that could embed the Beijing-controlled technology across nations.

Dean Ball, a senior executive at ChatGPT-developer OpenAI, wrote on X that China’s strategy of giving away its AI code would probably lead to “full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes”.