China's new AI model halts new subscriptions as demand swamps capacity

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-source model launched to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, suspended new subscriptions within 48 hours after demand exceeded compute capacity. The suspension exposes a critical infrastructure constraint: Chinese AI labs can build competitive models but lack the chip capacity to serve global demand at scale.

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