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Moonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba
Chinese AI champion Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for the use of around 20,000 Nvidia Corp. chips, underscoring China’s continued reliance on Western semiconductors to fuel its AI development, according to p
Editor's take
Moonshot, a leading Chinese AI developer, has secured access to approximately 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs through a partnership with Alibaba Cloud. This substantial compute allocation highlights the persistent challenges Chinese AI firms face in independently sourcing cutting-edge hardware, despite domestic efforts to build alternatives.
The deal underscores China's ongoing dependence on Western semiconductor technology, particularly Nvidia's, for advanced AI model training. It also reveals the critical role of domestic cloud providers like Alibaba in aggregating and distributing this scarce computing resource to domestic AI developers, enabling them to compete in the global AI race.
Future developments will focus on the sustainability of this arrangement amidst geopolitical tensions and potential export controls. Monitoring the progress of China's domestic chip manufacturing capabilities, such as those being developed by companies like Huawei, will be crucial to assessing the long-term impact of this reliance.
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