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China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Lena Fischer · 3h ago · 7 min

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China's now burning through 140 trillion AI tokens a day. what's powering that is the real story

in two years China's daily AI usage jumped from 100 billion tokens to 140 trillion — a 1,000× leap. the wild part isn't the number. it's what's actually running it under US chip bans.

Lena Fischer · Jul 18 · 6 min