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Moonshot's Kimi K3 Beats Alibaba, Faces Illegal Chip Allegations

8/1/2026

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Moonshot signed a computing deal with Alibaba to use about 20,000 Nvidia chips.
The chips are Nvidia Hopper-generation H200 accelerators.
Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that outperformed Alibaba’s Qwen models, disappointing some Alibaba staff.
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios alleged Moonshot illegally obtained Nvidia Blackwell processors via a Thai rental channel and used distilled Anthropic Claude Fable 5 outputs to train Kimi K3.

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Moonshot signed a computing deal with Alibaba to use about 20,000 Nvidia chips.
The chips are Nvidia Hopper-generation H200 accelerators.
Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that outperformed Alibaba’s Qwen models, disappointing some Alibaba staff.
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios alleged Moonshot illegally obtained Nvidia Blackwell processors via a Thai rental channel and used distilled Anthropic Claude Fable 5 outputs to train Kimi K3.