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Alibaba bankrolled Kimi K3 with 20,000 Nvidia chips: Now Qwen is losing to its own compute

Kimi K3 Alibaba chip deal confirmed: Bloomberg investigation reveals Moonshot AI used roughly 20,000 Nvidia chips supplied by investor Alibaba to train Kimi K3, the model now outperforming Alibaba's own Qwen AI team — exposing a cloud-rental loophole that existing US chip export controls cannot reach and raising fresh enterprise data-risk questions about the Kimi API.

Alibaba releases AI model Qwen to challenge US rival Anthropic’s Fable

Alibaba shared results showing it delivered comparable or sometimes better scores than Anthropic’s Fable 5. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8 Max AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, rivaling Kimi K3

China's Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen 3.8 Max, which the company described as its most powerful AI model to date.
Forbes

Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max Model—China’s Latest AI Challenger To OpenAI And Anthropic

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Alibaba introduced its Qwen3.8-Max AI model, scheduled to release next week, as one of the world’s largest open AI models at 2.4 trillion parameters, or the values that shape how a model ...
The Financial Express

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 trained on 20,000 Nvidia chips despite US export curbs: Report

China’s Moonshot AI built the Kimi K3 model using around 20,000 Nvidia H200 chips via Alibaba, highlighting China’s AI progress and challenges in accessing advanced US-exported technology.