Beijing-based AI startup Moonshot AI has secured a deal with Alibaba Group to access roughly 20,000 Nvidia H200 chips, enabling it to train and run its Kimi K3 model with up to 2.8 trillion parameters…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi models, runs a large share of its training and serving on roughly 20,000 Nvidia H200 chips supplied through a compute agreement with Alibaba Cloud, accordi…
The House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on China have launched a joint investigation into American companies using AI models built by Chinese firms, including DoorDash,…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a one-million-token context window, was developed using a 20,000-Nvidia-GPU cluster provided through Alibaba, according to a Bloomberg report…
Moonshot AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the Kimi chatbot, raised over $3.5 billion in its latest funding round, lifting its valuation to $35 billion, according to Yicai Global. T…
Microsoft Corp. on July 1 added Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code to its Microsoft Foundry model catalog in public preview, and GitHub Inc. made it the first open-weight model in the Copilot model picker, …
Moonshot AI is running its Kimi models on a 20,000 Nvidia GPU cluster provisioned through Alibaba, which holds a 36% stake in the company. The Chinese AI startup's valuation has surged from $4.8 billi…
In the last two weeks, AI capabilities have surged while economic and political support has weakened, with Alphabet's free cash flow turning negative for the first time, Meta's stock plunging nearly 1…
Microsoft and Moonshot AI have made the Kimi K2.7 Code model available in the Microsoft Foundry model catalog starting July 1, 2026. The coding-focused model, priced at $0.95 input and $4.00 output pe…
Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company, launched Kimi K3, an open-weight frontier model, which the author tested and found very good but still prefers Claude Opus. The July 2026 edition of Web Wanderings a…
A Baseten inference engineer known as @waterloo_intern published a technical blog post titled '22,580: From GPT-2 to Kimi K3, Explained,' which has garnered 2.4 million views. The post provides runnab…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the largest open-source AI model with 2.8 trillion total parameters, but the 594GB download and 4xH100 80GB GPU cluster requirements make it impractical for most develope…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, on July 27, 2026, making it the first open-weight system to reach the 3 trillion parameter class. The model requi…
On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, described as the first open-weight system to reach the 3 trillion parameter class. The model ac…
Moonshot AI released the full weights and technical report for Kimi K3 on July 27th, documenting a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that activates 104 billion parameters per token. The Beijing developer h…
DigitalOcean launched Kimi K3 on day 0, making it one of the most popular models on the platform and across the market, with the second most likes on Hugging Face and sixth most traffic on OpenCode. T…
The White House accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI on July 22 of acquiring Nvidia's export-controlled GB300 chips and using them to train its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, the most specifi…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model paired with xAI's Grok 4.5 built an embedded key-value database that passed 64 of 65 conformance checks and scored 93/100, compared to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5…
More than half of AI unicorns have never led a single scientific publication, according to a peer-reviewed preprint posted July 16 on bioRxiv and covered by Science/AAAS, with lead author John Ioannid…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup backed by Alibaba, released Kimi K3 in mid-July 2026, an open-weight large language model with 2.8 trillion parameters that achieved the highest score on a popular…