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Recent reports indicate that Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI used NVIDIA Blackwell chips for training its latest frontier model, Kimi K3, bypassing both U.S. export controls and Chinese import restrictions. The U.S. government prohibits selling Blackwell chips to Chinese firms, while China is also devel

Moonshot AI's release of the Kimi-K3 model weights marks a significant challenge to industry leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. The model outperforms previous generations of Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol in benchmarks, while offering substantially lower inference costs—around $3 per million tokens co

The White House accused China's Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic's Fable model and acquiring banned Nvidia chips to build its Kimi K3 AI system. Michael Kratsios, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, alleged that Moonshot used sophisticated distillation techniques to replic