Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs, sources tell CNBC
Chinese AI lab Moonshot has held talks this year to rent Nvidia Blackwell capacity from European neoclouds, four people familiar with the matter told CNBC, seeking remote access to chips U.S. export controls bar from import into China. Sources said Moonshot pursued clusters of 8,000 or more GPUs mainly for inference, with some interest in training, after the White House said in July that the Kimi developer had accessed Blackwell chips via a Thailand facility. Current rules do not broadly cover overseas cloud access; Moonshot, Nvidia, and the White House did not comment.
Source: CNBC