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Breaking Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 11:33 AM

Moonshot AI accessed banned NVIDIA chips in Thailand, White House alleges

A White House official accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of accessing NVIDIA's advanced GB300 chips despite U.S. export controls, citing evidence that the company acquired GB300-equipped servers and accessed them in Thailand. Moonshot released the Kimi K3 model last week, which the company claims closes the performance gap with frontier models including Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol, with 2.8 trillion parameters. The GB300 is one generation behind NVIDIA's frontier Vera Rubin systems but remains cutting-edge technology banned from export to China.

White House director Michael Kratsios also alleged that Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable model at industrial scale to develop K3, echoing Anthropic's earlier claims of coordinated extraction campaigns. This escalates the U.S.-China AI race, as the Remote Access Security Act (RASA)—bipartisan legislation passed by the House in January—seeks to expand export controls to remote cloud access of critical hardware. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against any Chinese company conducting covert distillation attacks that "cross the line into IP theft."

For architects: This signals the U.S. is actively enforcing AI chip export controls through intelligence operations and considering expanding restrictions to remote access vectors. The emergence of a ~2.8T-parameter open-source model trained on potentially illicit access represents a capability leap that pressures the industry's compute-sourcing assumptions. Moonshot's ability to train frontier-scale models despite restrictions suggests Thailand and other jurisdictions are becoming proxy compute hubs.

Sources

Primary source
cnbc.com
“Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said "acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand" to train Moonshot's K3 model”