Tag: Chinese ai

The LLM token relay market: how resellers sell cheap API access

An investigation maps the "relay market" — a gray zone where resellers, mostly in China, sell cheap access to LLM tokens from pooled API keys obtained via trials, stolen cards and chargebacks.

GLM-5.2 is 5× cheaper than Opus 4.8 — at a coding-score cost

Z.ai's Chinese GLM-5.2 model costs about five times less than Anthropic's Opus 4.8 for output tokens in the API, but clearly trails it on the hardest coding tasks. It shows where the price-versus-quality line runs in AI-assisted coding today.

US threatens Moonshot with sanctions over distilling Anthropic's Fable

The U.S. Treasury threatened sanctions on Moonshot AI after the White House accused it of distilling Anthropic's Fable model and dodging Nvidia GB300 export controls.

Fair use and distillation: a bid to boost US open AI

Ben Thompson proposes the US treat training-data collection as fair use and bar terms of service from forbidding distillation. The trigger is Alibaba opening its Qwen 3.8 Max model.

China's free AI models split Trump's AI camp

Free, open Chinese models — chiefly Moonshot's Kimi — have triggered an open rift inside the Trump administration's tech circle over whether to back open source or curb it on national-security grounds.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: 2.8T parameters and open-weight release by end of July

Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 — a 2.8 trillion parameter model that self-reported benchmarks place above Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. The largest Chinese open-weight model to date, with weights promised by July 27, 2026.

MiniMax M2.7 — model językowy zdolny do udziału we własnym treningu

GLM-5: duży model językowy zaprojektowany do autonomicznego inżynierowania oprogramowania