David Sacks challenges US AI policy after Chinas Kimi K3 tops coding test
China‘s Kimi K3 has climbed to first place on the Frontend Code Arena, prompting former White House crypto czar David Sacks to warn that US regulation could weaken America’s position in the AI race. Sacks described the benchmark result as concerning because Kimi K3 also performed close to leading models across several other evaluations. He argued that restrictions on data centers, state-level rules and proposed federal reviews could slow American developers while Chinese companies continue building advanced systems. “This is how you lose the AI race,” Sacks wrote. According to Sacks, the United States became a technology leader during the internet era by allowing companies to develop products without seeking government approval in advance. He believes Washington should follow a similar approach to AI while using targeted rules to address specific safety risks. Kimi K3 strengthens Chinas position in advanced AI development Moonshot AI built Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters, a one-million-token context window and native multimodal capabilities. The company designed the model for lengthy coding assignments and agent-based workflows that require systems to complete several connected tasks. Moonshot AI reported that its Kimi Delta Attention system delivers decoding speeds up to 6.3 times faster when processing one-million-token contexts. Its Attention Residuals technology also improves