Moonshot AI Releases Largest Open-Source Model Amid US Export and Sanctions Concerns
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source AI model, claiming performance comparable to leading systems. The model was trained using about 20,000 Nvidia Hopper-generation H200 chips provided via Alibaba's cloud infrastructure, which owns a significant stake in Moonshot. Despite US export restrictions and sanctions threats, Moonshot released the full model weights publicly on July 27, allowing unrestricted access. US officials have accused Moonshot of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model and using restricted Nvidia hardware, raising concerns amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.
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thefinancialexpress broke this story on 31 Jul, 04:32 pm. Other outlets followed.
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