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Alibaba Bankrolled Kimi K3 With 20,000 Nvidia Chips: Now Qwen Is Losing to Its Own Compute

Moonshot AI utilized approximately 20,000 Nvidia chips supplied through Alibaba to develop its Kimi K3 model. This report highlights how major infrastructure providers are actively fueling the development of competing large language models within the Chinese artificial intelligence market.

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