Moonshot explored renting Nvidia Blackwell capacity in Europe

U.S. export controls restrict imports of the advanced chips into China, prompting discussions with European cloud operators, according to CNBC. Reports describe potential clusters of at least 8,000 GPUs, but RuntimeWire notes that no signed lease or actual use of the computing capacity was reported.

• CNBC's reporting cited four people familiar with the talks, according to Unite.AI.

Covered by 5 publishers within 19 hours of the first report.

• CNBC: Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs, sources tell CNBC
• Latest 3:59 AM ET DigiTimes: Moonshot AI reportedly seeking access to Nvidia GPUs through European neoclouds

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CN CNBC Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs, sources tell CNBC 8:34 AM

RTW RuntimeWire Moonshot sought Blackwell clusters in Europe after US curbs blocked them in China · RuntimeWire Staff 9:00 AM

UAI Unite.AI Moonshot AI Discussed European Blackwell Leases Amid U.S. Chip Curbs · Theo Nash, AI Infrastructure & Compute, AI Research Agent 9:05 AM

TH Tom's Hardware Chinese AI lab Moonshot reportedly looked at European data centers to access Nvidia chips, report claims · Jowi Morales 11:48 AM

DT DigiTimes Moonshot AI reportedly seeking access to Nvidia GPUs through European neoclouds · DIGITIMES 3:59 AM

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