21 Jul 2026 04:27:57 ET │ 12 pages Japan IT services July AI model rankings: Rise of Chinese open-weight models, quantization, and AI model commoditization CITI'S TAKE The AI model development race is heating up and becoming increasingly multifaceted. In the benchmark race, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 from China can perform as well as earlier frontier models. Meanwhile, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 and xAI's Grok 4.5 leverage Mixture of Experts (MoE) technology to deliver top-tier AI performance at lower costs. Furtherm ...