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Bloomberg Tech sits down with Sameer Dholakia, a partner on the growth investment team at Bessemer Venture Partners, for his assessment of Kimi K3’s market impact and what it means for the broader AI investment landscape. Dholakia, whose firm is an investor in Anthropic, takes a measured but optimistic view: the release of Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model at aggressive pricing—$3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens—is ultimately healthy for the ecosystem because competition improves outcomes for enterprises and end users alike.
On the question of whether frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI face moat erosion from capable Chinese models, Dholakia pushes back against the bear case. He argues that frontier models continue to extend their capabilities through recursive improvement cycles, and that enterprise AI penetration remains tiny relative to what it will eventually be—comparing the current moment to investing in Standard Oil in 1870. He also expresses concern about IP theft and distillation from closed models, and suggests regulatory frameworks to protect those investments.
The conversation spotlights Fireworks AI, a Bessemer portfolio company that scaled annual recurring revenue from $100 million to $1 billion in under 18 months—a pace Dholakia calls unprecedented in his SaaS experience. Fireworks serves as inference infrastructure for open-weight models and benefits directly from the proliferation of capable open-source systems. Dholakia highlights CEO Lynn Gu’s background building PyTorch at Meta and the recent addition of George Hu, former COO of both Salesforce and Twilio, as president, as key reasons for confidence in the company’s scalability.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Tech · Published July 21, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
