Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is increasingly being used by U.S. companies as a lower-cost alternative to proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to The Washington Post.

The report said demand for Chinese open-weight AI remains strong despite growing regulatory and national-security scrutiny in Washington. It cited companies including DoorDash and Airbnb as users of Chinese open models for routine workloads, highlighting the growing commercial adoption of lower-cost Chinese AI technology in the U.S. market.

Source: washingtonpost.com