As the United States raises its stakes on AI, can China win over the world with its open-weight models?

The excerpt cites the White House's July 2025 AI Action Plan, which it says explicitly encouraged open-source and open-weight AI. According to the excerpt, the plan argued that downloadable models promote research and competition. It also stated that the decision on whether to release an open or a closed model was fundamentally up to the developer.

The excerpt reports that Chinese state media has portrayed US technology controls as attempts to erect an 'AI Iron Curtain.' It adds that the release of Kimi K3 appears to have complicated that position. In the excerpt, the 'AI Iron Curtain' characterisation is attributed to Chinese state media rather than to the article's author. The excerpt does not name the specific technology controls at issue, nor state which organisation released Kimi K3, nor give a date for that release.

The excerpt does not quantify how widely Chinese open-weight models have been adopted outside China, and it does not describe how the United States has raised its stakes beyond the July 2025 AI Action Plan. The article's headline frames the subject as a question and the excerpt provided does not resolve it. Beyond the July 2025 reference and the mention of Kimi K3, the excerpt supplies no additional figures, named officials, companies or dates. The rest of the article's argument is not contained in the excerpt.