Moonshot AI accessed Nvidia's chips despite Chinese export ban, White House official says

White House official Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of accessing Nvidia's GB300 chips—banned under export controls—through servers in Thailand to train its Kimi K3 model, which closed the performance gap with frontier US models like GPT 5.6 Sol. The allegation highlights how Chinese companies are circumventing US hardware restrictions via offshore procurement and cloud access, prompting bipartisan legislation (RASA) to expand export controls to remote access of critical chips.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models and AI Infrastructure, and 2 sources have reported it between 22 Jul 2026 and 23 Jul 2026.