Moonshot AI seeks more Nvidia Blackwell chips to train its next model

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The only thing that can be taken as certain is what the headline itself says: Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot is reportedly seeking to obtain more advanced Nvidia chips from the Blackwell family in order to train its next model. That fits a context already known and widely documented across the sector: US export restrictions limit Chinese AI companies' access to Nvidia's most powerful semiconductors, which has turned securing these chips into a critical factor for the Chinese labs competing to develop frontier models.

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