New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- ​In the beginning of this year, DeepSeek's viral streak put an end to all notions of America's unhindered supremacy in the AI race, as the Chinese chatbot showed that it was possible to build similarly powerful models to those used by ChatGPT and Gemini at a fraction of the cost. Since then, there have been a plethora of AI companies that have come up from China, including Alibaba's Qwen, Baidu's Ernie, and Moonshot AI's Kimi.

​The new Chinese models have kept on closing the gap with the Western ones like ChatGPT. However, a new Kimi model has now even dethroned ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude on many important benchmarks.

​Earlier in the week, Moonshot released its Kimi K2 Thinking model, which goe...