Moonshot’s Kimi K3 triggers Silicon Valley debate over bans on Chinese open source models

China’s Moonshot AI has made its latest Artificial Intelligence model Kimi K3 available for public download, as its open-source strategy and more support for non-Nvidia ecosystems trigger heated debates across Silicon Valley.On Monday, the Chinese AI start-up not only released the model’s “weights” – the underlying parameters that encode its intelligence – but also made available key infrastructure, including tools to improve efficiency and stability.The move has allowed developers around the world, including in the United States, to use, copy, modify and distribute the software – the largest open-weight AI model so far with 2.8 trillion parameters.