China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute

China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both…

Moonshot AI circumvented U.S. export controls to train frontier model Kimi K3 on Nvidia Blackwell, assembling multiple eight-chip servers across datacenters to aggregate necessary compute. China's AI players are narrowing the frontier model gap despite sanctions, as remote-access and partnership loopholes undermine export control effectiveness.