China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 

Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. Parameter counts are measures of a model’s complexity during training and offer a rough indication of its scale and performance, though bigger does not always mean better. Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is a 2.4 trillion parameter model and “continuously evolving.” Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic disclose exact parameter counts for their leading systems.It remains difficult to assess how capable either Chinese model is until they are fully released and independently tested.