WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts issued the following press release:
The following op-ed by U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and U.S. Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) was originally published by the Washington Times (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/10/match-act-protect-americas-ai-lead-china/?utm_campaign=twt_app&utm_medium=twt_app_link&utm_source=twt_app) on August 10, 2026.
Industry and government officials widely believed that American frontier models were six months ahead of Chinese competitors. That lead shrank last month when the China-based Moonshot AI (https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/moonshot-ai/) released its new model Kimi K3 (https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/kimi-k3/).
This Chinese model is competit...