Moonshot Openly Defies the Trump Administration by Seeking Access to Additional NVIDIA GPUs for Training the Next-Gen Kimi K4 Model

Moonshot is reportedly seeking more NVIDIA Blackwell GPU capacity to train Kimi K4 after releasing the open-source Kimi K3 model.

The effort may clash with U.S. export controls, especially under the Trump administration’s tightening rules on advanced AI chips.

Moonshot already relies on distributed compute across China-based data centers and has previously faced allegations involving access via Thailand.

The case underscores rising tensions over frontier AI training compute, China’s access to high-end GPUs, and the future of open-weight models.