America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

The Verge op-ed argues the market panic over new Chinese models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 — which it says can compete with OpenAI and Anthropic — was predictable, noting six of the top 10 AI tools on OpenRouter's leaderboard are already Chinese.
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