{"id":174995,"date":"2025-11-11T13:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174995\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:33:12","slug":"chinas-moonshot-claims-to-build-models-with-fewer-high-end-ai-chips-than-us-rivals-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174995\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer high-end AI chips than US rivals use"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a three-hour-long \u201cask me anything\u201d session on Reddit on Monday evening, a Moonshot AI representative with the handle \u201cppwwyyxx\u201d \u2013 the same moniker used by co-founder Wu Yuxin on X \u2013 said the company was \u201coutnumbered\u201d by rival US firms in terms of \u201chigh-end GPUs\u201d used for AI model development.<\/p>\n

That reflected how Chinese AI companies have been making the most of available resources on the mainland to create cutting-edge models, despite stringent US tech export restrictions<\/a>.With Kimi K2 Thinking\u2019s release last week, Moonshot AI \u2013 a unicorn valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding<\/a> and Tencent Holdings<\/a> \u2013 ignited fresh debate about another \u201cDeepSeek<\/a> moment\u201d in the global AI industry, while raising questions about recent efforts by OpenAI<\/a> and its CEO Sam Altman<\/a> to secure more than US$1.4 trillion in infrastructure deals with the likes of Nvidia, Broadcom<\/a> and Oracle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

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