Chinese language AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for causes that had much less to do with the mannequin itself and extra to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. In the meantime, an unreleased OpenAI mannequin wandered outdoors its check surroundings and ended up linked to an actual security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder that “China threat” isn’t the one form of AI threat price worrying about.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into why Kimi K3 set off a recent spherical of AI panic, the trade’s response to an OpenAI staffer’s “regulatory FUD” put up, and what that OpenAI breach means for AI safety extra broadly.
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