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China's Moonshot AI reportedly uses Nvidia Blackwell chips, bypassing trade controls · 2 sources tracked

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Moonshot AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence company, has reportedly utilized Nvidia's advanced Blackwell chips to train its Kimi K3 model. This circumvents both U.S. export restrictions and China's own import controls on such high-end hardware. The company allegedly acquired these chips through intermediaries and rented datacenter time abroad to bypass trade barriers, highlighting the intense competition in the AI sector and the creative workarounds employed by firms to access cutting-edge technology. AI

IMPACT Highlights the global race for AI compute and the lengths companies will go to acquire cutting-edge hardware, potentially influencing future trade policies and hardware availability.

RANK_REASON Report on a company circumventing international trade restrictions to acquire advanced AI hardware for model training.

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China's Moonshot AI reportedly uses Nvidia Blackwell chips, bypassing trade controls · 2 sources tracked

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Bruno Ferreira ·

    China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute

    Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — potentially circumventing both U.S. export and Chinese import controls

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire c

    China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — potentially circumventing both U.S. exp…

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