A White House official accused China's Moonshot AI of violating US export controls to access Nvidia's GB300 chips in Thailand, which the company used to develop the Kimi K3 model released in July 2026. OpenAI's Greg Brockman acknowledged Kimi K3 is competitive but expressed uncertainty about whether it was derived from GPT models.
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A White House official accused China’s Moonshot of improperly using US artificial intelligence models and Nvidia Corp. chips to create the Kimi K3 system that stunned the tech industry last week with its advanced capabilities.
The official claimed the Chinese company violated U.S. export control rules and companies' terms of service to build its product.
A White House official said Moonshot AI, which released the powerful Kimi K3 model last week, accessed Nvidia's GB300 chips in Thailand.