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November 11, 2026

Chinese Filings Show Moonshot AI Rented Advanced Nvidia Chips Inside China

Documents filed with Beijing regulators reveal that Moonshot AI, one of China’s leading frontier model developers, secured access to Nvidia’s most advanced AI accelerators on Chinese soil this summer — an arrangement that appears to circumvent U.S. export controls.

October 31, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Adds Chinese Models Kimi and GLM; Jassy Says West 'Very Hungry' for Western Open Models

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced during the company's third-quarter earnings call on Thursday that AWS Bedrock will host two Chinese frontier models—Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM 5.3. The additions were disclosed alongside Bedrock's existing lineup of closed models from…

October 24, 2026

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro open-weight model with 1M-token context

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, its most capable open-weight model to date, featuring a 1-million-token context window, a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.8 trillion total parameters (104 billion active per token), and pricing that…