Chinese Startup Crushes GPT-5 and Claude for $4.6M

Nov 13, 2025

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Welcome back to 4IR. Here’s today’s lineup:

Chinese startup crushes GPT-5 and Claude for $4.6M - Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking beats frontier models on key benchmarks while costing a fraction to train, it’s open-source, and pricing is 6-10x cheaper as China’s “DeepSeek moment” strikes again
UK passes world’s first AI child safety testing law - Government lets designated researchers legally probe AI models for illegal content generation after reports jumped from 199 to 426 cases, finally letting safety teams test without breaking the law
Foxconn drops cryptic OpenAI hint after posting $1.89B profit - Taiwan’s manufacturing giant reports 17% profit jump on AI server demand, says boom is “just beginning,” then teases mystery OpenAI news at Tuesday’s tech day

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