{"id":126791,"date":"2025-11-11T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/126791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:03:08","slug":"why-new-model-of-chinas-moonshot-ai-stirs-deepseek-moment-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/126791\/","title":{"rendered":"Why new model of China\u2019s Moonshot AI stirs \u2018DeepSeek moment\u2019 debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that \u201cset new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most popular model for developers on Hugging Face as of Monday, while its release post on X had attracted 4.5 million views. The popularity of the model \u2013 a variant of the Kimi K2 model \u2013 had further grown after CNBC reported its training cost was merely US$4.6 million. Moonshot AI did not comment on the cost.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Even without factoring in its costs, the latest model has impressed the AI community. Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, commented on X that Kimi K2 Thinking was another case of an open-source model passing a closed-source model.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Training costs of Chinese AI models are seeing a \u201ccliff-like drop\u201d, according to an analyst. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6e33ba4b-418c-4d06-b6d0-026af12cf51c_3466fe1e.jpg\" title=\"Training costs of Chinese AI models are seeing a \u201ccliff-like drop\u201d, according to an analyst. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Training costs of Chinese AI models are seeing a \u201ccliff-like drop\u201d, according to an analyst. Photo: Shutterstock\u201cIs this another <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/article\/3300970\/plus-exclusive-chinas-ai-takes-leap-after-deepseek-moment-opens-possibilities?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeepSeek moment<\/a>?\u201d Wolf asked. He was referring to the launch of the low-cost but high-efficient R1 reasoning model by the Hangzhou-based Chinese AI start-up earlier this year that had shaken the perception of absolute American AI supremacy. \u201cShould we expect [one] every couple of months now?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,2939,80014,1463,343,344,5560,80013,15493,2943,3307,63752,2945,85,46,80015,15430,4136,1748,125,12791],"class_list":{"0":"post-126791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","10":"tag-americas-ai-supremacy","11":"tag-anthropic","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-beijing","15":"tag-chinese-ai","16":"tag-cnbc","17":"tag-deepseek","18":"tag-github","19":"tag-gpt-5","20":"tag-hugging-face","21":"tag-il","22":"tag-israel","23":"tag-kimi-k2-thinking","24":"tag-moonshot-ai","25":"tag-nvidia","26":"tag-openai","27":"tag-technology","28":"tag-tencent-holdings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}