Moonshot used 20,000 Nvidia chips from Alibaba to build Kimi

Chinese startup Moonshot trained its Kimi chatbot using cloud computing infrastructure provided by Alibaba.

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Jul 31: Moonshot used 20,000 Nvidia chips from Alibaba to build Kimi

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What happened

Moonshot AI built its Kimi chatbot on a cluster powered by 20,000 Nvidia processors. Alibaba Cloud supplied the computing infrastructure for the setup. Bloomberg reported the cluster details based on sources familiar with the deal.

The context

Chinese AI startups face tight US sanctions on buying advanced Nvidia hardware. Renting large GPU clusters from domestic cloud giants like Alibaba gives them the raw compute power needed to train competitive models.

Sources

Bloomberg.com ↗ via Google News Reported

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