Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI startup, is seeking additional Nvidia Blackwell chips to train Kimi K4, the successor to its Kimi K3 model. Kimi K3, released on July 22, 2026, carries 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1-million-token context window. The United States has imposed strict export restrictions limiting China’s access to advanced semiconductors. On July 23, 2026, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, publicly accused Moonshot of using servers located in Thailand to distill and replicate U.S. models, including Anthropic’s Fable, effectively circumventing export controls through geographic workarounds.
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