Moonshot AI reportedly sought to lease access to Nvidia Blackwell GPUs hosted in Europe, CNBC reported on November 5, 2026. A later account said the 2026 discussions covered clusters of 8,000 or more GPUs.
How the reported access would work
The proposed arrangement would keep the GPUs at European cloud facilities and give Moonshot remote access to their computing capacity. The reports described this route amid U.S. restrictions on shipping advanced Nvidia chips to China.
Sources cited in the later account described inference as an intended use. Inference means running a trained model to produce outputs. One source also mentioned interest in training, the process of developing or adjusting a model. These were reported aims for the capacity, not descriptions of workloads in operation.
The reported route puts computing capacity in European data centers while the GPUs remain hosted there.
The later account characterized remote access through overseas data centers as a legal gray area.
The Kimi K4 report covered a separate development
In a July 2026 summary of reporting by The Information, AI Weekly said Moonshot was seeking more Blackwell chips for a planned Kimi K4, described as significantly larger than Kimi K3. The summary identified Kimi K3 as an open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters.
That earlier account concerned Kimi K4 compute demand; the European story concerned discussions about leasing hosted GPU capacity. The reports did not identify Kimi K4 as the purpose of the European discussions.
