Reuters: The launch, which comes a month after Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models were abruptly withdrawn by the U.S. government due to security concerns, underscores how quickly China’s open AI ecosystem is narrowing the gap with the most advanced U.S. systems.
Companies including Moonshot, Z.ai and MiniMax are releasing increasingly powerful models at sharply lower cost, challenging long-held assumptions in the West that Chinese developers trail their American peers by months…