White House accuses Moonshot of illegal use of Nvidia chips, AI models

White House: Moonshot used banned Nvidia chips for Kimi K3

White House accused Moonshot AI of acquiring banned Nvidia Blackwell chips and distilling Anthropic models for Kimi K3, now a top-ranked open-weight LLM. The accusation exposes export-control gaps as Moonshot seeks $50B funding and Hong Kong IPO, raising concerns about IP theft and US containment strategy effectiveness.