China’s Moonshot AI signed a deal to rent 32 servers with Nvidia’s banned B300 chips, Bloomberg reports, yet Moonshot disputes the documents.
Startups like MiniMax and Moonshot are setting up U.S. outposts, but massive pay gaps, weaker prestige, and national security tensions make luring talent away from OpenAI and Anthropic an uphill climb.
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Moonshot AI has sought leasing agreements with neoclouds for advanced chips in Europe, as U.S. export controls restrict their import to China.
DeepSeek and Moonshot relied heavily on OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to train their latest models, The Information reports.
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Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded open-weight model it says rivals top US models on coding. It cut hacking data before releasing the weights.