The Enterprise AI Shift: How Chinese Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Dominance
When Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told Bloomberg in October that his company relies heavily on Alibaba's Qwen model for AI-powered customer service, calling it "very good, fast, and cheap," he offered a rare glimpse into a trend that's quietly reshaping enterprise AI adoption. While Silicon Valley giants battle over who can build the most powerful—and…
The AI That Pauses to Think: How Interleaved Reasoning Is Reshaping Autonomous Agents
When Moonshot AI demonstrated its Kimi K2 model tackling a PhD-level mathematics problem in hyperbolic geometry, according to examples published in their technical documentation, the AI didn't just compute an answer. It embarked on a 23-step journey: searching academic literature, running calculations, reconsidering its approach based on results, querying databases again, and iterating until it…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Challenges Western Leaders—With a Licensing Twist
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2 Thinking, a massive language model that the company claims outperforms leading American AI systems on several key benchmarks. If the claims hold up under independent testing, the release would mark another milestone in China's accelerating push to close the AI performance gap with Western labs—and…
