Chinese models gain usage as state firms push AI infrastructure
China’s AI compute news centered on open-weight model releases, model usage rankings, and policy support for computing-power infrastructure.
• Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, releasing its model weights, technical report, and training infrastructure technologies MoonEP, FlashKDA and AgentEnv.
• Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion-parameter model built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with native visual understanding support.
• Arena’s Week 30 rankings showed Kimi K3 retained the global No. 1 spot for front-end development and entered the top 10 on the coding leaderboard.
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 ranked first globally on OpenRouter’s weekly and monthly large-model call-volume charts, with weekly token volume rising from 1.46 trillion to 10.46 trillion since May.
• SASAC said China will deepen central state-owned enterprises’ “AI+” campaign and accelerate computing-power infrastructure construction.
• China’s National Bureau of Statistics said surging computing-power demand drove electronics industry profits up 96.9% year on year in the first half, with computer manufacturing and peripheral equipment profits rising sharply.
• Vertiv’s Tian Jun said AI data-center construction is driving rapid iteration in power and cooling architectures, with 800 VDC and liquid cooling described as the clear direction.
• Market reports said a Source Photonics flagship computing-power optical module, listed among items stolen overseas in the DSBJ theft controversy, appeared on second-hand platforms at low prices.