Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 trained on 20,000 Nvidia chips despite US export curbs: Report
China‘s AI startup Moonshot AI built its latest Kimi K3 model using a cluster of around 20,000 Nvidia chips provided through Alibaba, according to a Bloomberg report. The arrangement has given a rare look at the computing power behind one of China’s biggest AI breakthroughs and shows how Chinese companies are finding ways to compete with US rivals despite export restrictions.
Moonshot launched Kimi K3 on July 17, calling it the world’s largest open-source AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters. The company says the model performs on par with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.
