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Aug 26, 2026

Moonshot AI negotiates revenue-sharing deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google for K3 model

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host its K3 model on their cloud platforms through revenue-sharing agreements. This would mark the first time a Chinese AI company's model appears on major US cloud infrastructure.

Aug 26, 20262 sources

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▪U.S. officials have accused Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic's sophisticated model, Fable, to help create the Kimi K3 model
▪Analysis firm Artificial Analysis reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 delivers performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on complex, multi-step tasks
▪Moonshot AI rejected allegations of model distillation, telling China's National Business Daily in July 2026 that Kimi K3's performance gains came from original architectural changes

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