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Frances Newton, chief investment officer at Tuttle Wealth, framed China’s Kimi K3 launch as a “chess match” on Fox Business, and that matters because these model debuts are the market’s equivalent of a flashy opening move. Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances are real, but a demo does not equal durable profits or global adoption. Investors should parse which firms actually control the expensive plumbing, chips, cloud capacity, data access and distribution, instead of getting swept up by the headline.