Chinese AI lab that Dario Amodei complained to the US government is targeting Nvidia’ most-powerful chips that are banned in China; and the route the company is taking is Europe

Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab previously accused by the White House of remotely tapping into advanced Nvidia chips in East Asia, has been looking to secure access to those same restricted processors through European data centers, CNBC has reported. Citing four people familiar with the private discussions, the report said that talks have taken place this year for Moonshot to rent computing capacity from “neoclouds” hosting Nvidia GPUs inside European facilities. Moonshot is the maker of the Kimi AI assistant and in September, the company was accused by Anthropic of unauthorised model distillation and terms-of-service violations by secretly routing user requests through Claude.
Moonshot AI’s ‘European workaround’