Silicon Valley Turns to Chinese Base Models: Harvey, Cursor Adopt Kimi
APPSO · wechat · 2026-08-25
Harvey, a $11B legal AI unicorn, released its "Tenet" model based on KimiK3, highlighting a trend of Chinese models penetrating Silicon Valley. Reports indicate that US star products like Cursor, Cosine, and Devin have utilized Kimi series models as base models or for post-training. Offering a third path between costly training from scratch and pay-per-use APIs from OpenAI/Anthropic, Chinese open-source models provide a low-cost, customizable foundation. From open weights to synthetic data, Chinese models are becoming upstream raw materials for US AI products.
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