Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 31
Moonshot Secures 20,000 Nvidia Chips From Alibaba for Kimi AI Models
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 31

Moonshot Secures 20,000 Nvidia Chips From Alibaba for Kimi AI Models

3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 31

Summary

  • Around 20,000 Nvidia chips supplied through Alibaba underpin a substantial share of Moonshot’s computing capacity for its Kimi models, according to people familiar with the arrangement.
  • That agreement highlights how Chinese AI developers still depend on Western semiconductors even as US export curbs pressure access to advanced hardware.
  • Moonshot gained global attention earlier in July with Kimi K3, an open-source model that on some benchmarks approaches offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Insights

How did a Chinese startup secure 20,000 restricted Nvidia chips to power an AI rivaling the West's best?
Can a 3-trillion parameter open-source model truly dethrone proprietary AI giants using borrowed cloud infrastructure?