{"id":1023787,"date":"2026-07-27T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023787"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:54:54","slug":"cheaper-open-and-intelligent-chinese-ai-models-gain-ground-as-they-make-inroads-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/cheaper-open-and-intelligent-chinese-ai-models-gain-ground-as-they-make-inroads-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper, open and intelligent: Chinese AI models gain ground, as they make inroads in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot&#8217;s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model&#8217;s launch more than a week ago. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just seems snappier,&#8221; he said of K3, comparing it to the acclaimed and more expensive Claude Fable chatbot from San Francisco company Anthropic. Earlier, he had been using another high-performing Chinese model, Z.ai&#8217;s GLM-5.2, for routine tasks such as managing his calendar, documents and email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot&#8217;s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model&#8217;s launch more than a week ago. &#8220;It just seems snappier,&#8221; he said of K3, comparing it to the acclaimed and more expensive Claude Fable chatbot from San Francisco company Anthropic. Earlier, he had been using another high-performing Chinese model, Z.ai&#8217;s GLM-5.2, for routine tasks such as managing his calendar, documents and email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023788,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023787\/revisions\/1023788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}