If Developers Build on Chinese Open-Weight Models, Who Leads AI?

“It would be sad if local models were not an option and there were only proprietary models. It’s good to have alternatives. Competition is good for business.” — Sebastian Raschka, on open-weight AI Kimi K3’s weights landed about an hour before Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Sebastian Raschka went live. Sebastian had already updated his architecture diagram. That speed captures his approach to the current model wave: wait until the weights exist, run the model in the harness where it will actually work, then inspect the architecture closely enough to understand what changed. The conversation arrived d