Moonshot AI leases 20,000 Nvidia GPUs from Alibaba Cloud

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is leasing 20,000 Nvidia GPUs from Alibaba Cloud, according to a report, making up a significant share of the compute Moonshot uses for its Kimi models.

Why it matters: Despite US export controls, Chinese labs keep accessing large pools of Nvidia GPUs through cloud leasing rather than direct purchases, showing one route around hardware restrictions. It also underscores how compute-constrained labs like Moonshot lean on domestic cloud providers to scale frontier model training.