The latest Chinese AI models may indeed work for enterprises, but only in a handful of specific applications

Ever since Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched three years ago, enterprise executives have been nervous about relying on Chinese AI models . But now that the latest Chinese AI offerings, Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter model Qwen3.8 Max and Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model Kimi K3 , are promising even more powerful performance, those IT executives are being forced to again ask if these models are worth using, even in a limited fashion. Former Walmart head of risk Steven Eric Fisher , no