Anyone with background in coding tell me how big of a deal this actually is?
Honestly even back in K2.6 days the cost to capability ratio advantage meant, for all practical purposes there's already no point in using American AI, but it takes people who actually use them extensively to understand, which exclude management.
K3 and GLM5.2 at SOTA is much easier to understand for management, it more like a slap in the face that tells management you can either use Chinese models, or your company will get destroyed by competitors who do.
I mean things move so fast in the AI space, it's easy to forget that GPT5.6 release was only 1 week ago, and Opus 4.8 was only 6 weeks ago, both are getting moged by K3.