--- title: Moonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba description: Chinese AI startup Moonshot has a computing agreement with Alibaba to use approximately 20,000 Nvidia chips, forming a substantial portion of the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/moonshot-s-kimi-uses-20-000-nvidia-chip-cluster-from-alibaba-5v1ugp97m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Moonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba | daily.dev og:description: Chinese AI startup Moonshot has a computing agreement with Alibaba to use approximately 20,000 Nvidia chips, forming a substantial portion of the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/moonshot-s-kimi-uses-20-000-nvidia-chip-cluster-from-alibaba-5v1ugp97m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5V1Ugp97M.png og:image:alt: Moonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Moonshot’s Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Chinese AI startup Moonshot has a computing agreement with Alibaba to use approximately 20,000 Nvidia chips, forming a substantial portion of the infrastructure powering its Kimi AI models. This arrangement highlights China's ongoing dependence on Western semiconductors for AI development. Moonshot recently gained global attention with the launch of Kimi K3, an open-source model that competes closely with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic on several benchmarks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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