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The Rise of the AI Tigers: China's Fast-Moving Challenge to the Global AI Race

November 12, 2025 · 12 min

By Doug Liles

Overview of the newly released Kimi K2 Thinking model by Moonshot AI, a rapidly emerging Chinese lab in the generative AI space — a large-scale, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that excels due to its agentic capabilities…