Moonshot AI Secures 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Chips via Alibaba to Power Kimi K3 Architecture According to undisclosed industry sources, Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI the developer behind Kimi K3 , currently recognized as one of the most powerful open-weights AI models has secured an agreement to acquire an additional 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs mediated through e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba . Previous reports indicate that Moonshot AI relied on a cluster of approximately 20,000 NVIDIA Hopper-architecture chips sourced through entities in Southeast Asia (a region U.S. regulatory scrutiny previously identified as including Thailand). However, regarding past hardware access, Alibaba explicitly issued a public denial stating it had never provided Moonshot AI with access to NVIDIA H200 accelerators. The relationship between Moonshot AI and Alibaba represents a classic tech industry dynamic of simultaneous competition and partnership (coopetition). While Alibaba serves as a majo...
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