Moonshot AI rented restricted Nvidia B300 servers inside China, filings show

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi models, signed a contract in August to rent 32 Super Micro servers fitted with Nvidia's B300 GPUs, according to financing documents filed with Beijing regulators and reviewed by Bloomberg News. The filings valued the servers, stored in Qingyang in western China, at 432 million yuan ($64.8 million), a possible breach of US export rules that bar the chips from China without a license. Server owner Lingmeixin pledged the hardware and its Moonshot service contract as collateral for a 200 million yuan loan from Beijing Zhongguancun Bank. Moonshot says it neither took part in nor authorized the financing and has no relationship with Lingmeixin; Nvidia says the firms are not its customers, and Super Micro says it does not do business with them. References to Moonshot disappeared from the database after Bloomberg sought comment.