The AI Race Just Changed Forever | Silk and Steel

China's AI industry has done it again.

Just months after DeepSeek stunned the world, Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a massive new open-weight model that many analysts call the "Second DeepSeek Moment." Is the hype justified?

Carl Zha is joined by Chinese AI expert TP Huang to break down what Kimi K3 is, why it represents a major leap in China's AI capabilities, and what it means for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and the global AI race.

Topics include:

  • Why Kimi K3 is making headlines worldwide
  • Recursive self-improvement and accelerating AI development
  • China's rapidly advancing AI ecosystem
  • The battle between Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, and ZAI
  • Open-source AI vs. closed American models
  • Why Wall Street reacted so strongly
  • Alibaba's growing AI ambitions
  • The future of trillion-parameter AI models
  • China's AI hardware, supernodes, and domestic compute
  • What the World AI Conference revealed about China's next moves
  • Whether America is still leading—or if the balance is beginning to shift

Is this the moment China truly becomes a peer competitor in frontier AI?