After the Dark Side of the Moon Kimi K3 large model topped the global list, Bloomberg said that the United States’ inherent perception of AI leading China was broken

IT House reported on July 19 that the Dark Side of the Moon Kimi K3 large model was launched on Thursday, with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1 million Tokens context. In the Frontend Code Arena global AI large model list, Kimi K3 surpassed Claude Fable 5 and ranked first with 1679 points. This new model from Dark Side of the Moon is shaking up the global tech market, Bloomberg reported today. Previously, industry insiders, including China’s top AI leaders and leading U.S. companies, believed that China’s development of cutting-edge AI models still lags behind the United States. An unnamed Anthropic executive also said this week that his company's technology is 6-12 months ahead of Chinese competitors. After the release of Kimi K3, Ion Stoica, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, said: "In the past, we have always believed that China's open source model lags behind the most advanced models by about 6-9 months. Now, this gap may have narrowed to 2-3 months." The performance improvement of Kimi K3 also surprised many observers and investors. Similar to the discussion triggered by DeepSeek back then, the market is now questioning whether Silicon Valley’s hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in AI can get a corresponding return, and whether the United States’ AI leadership has been weakened. At the same time, more and more enterprise users are beginning to pay attention to the cost of using AI. Some developers have already used the "Model Routing" service to automatically select the lowest-cost and most efficient AI model based on different tasks, which of course includes Chinese models. An executive at a U.S. AI company who declined to be named said U.S. companies will still rely on innovation to stay ahead. But as competition intensifies, they must more clearly prove the value of their products to customers. In fact, the U.S. AI industry has already taken notice of the Chinese model ahead of Kimi K3’s release