Beijing-headquartered Moonshot AI accessed advanced AI chips from Nvidia 
NVDA according to regulatory documents seen by Bloomberg.
The documents showed Moonshot rented servers with Nvidia B300 GPUs, the most powerful AI accelerator chips at present.
The filings disclosed financing contracts by server owner Lingmeixin (Beijing) Technology Co. and financier Beijing Zhongguancun Bank Co. The servers were valued at around $65M, according to the filings, and located in China. The U.S. requires an explicit license to sell advanced chips to the country.
Moonshot disputed the accuracy of the documents with Bloomberg News, and references to the company were no longer present after Bloomberg contacted them.
The Chinese company has been accused by the U.S. of training frontier models with restricted Nvidia Blackwell chips. It is presently developing a follow-up to its groundbreaking Kimi K3 model. A White House official had said at the time of the model’s release in the summer that Moonshot had accessed restricted Nvidia chips.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang most recently admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, raising the possibility that Chinese companies may have been able to access the chipmaker’s hardware while circumventing U.S. restrictions.
“We currently have no business relationship with Lingmeixin,” a Moonshot spokesperson told Bloomberg. “We neither participated in nor authorized the related financing or guarantee arrangements, and had no knowledge of them.”
An Nvidia spokesperson told Bloomberg that the parties involved “are not Nvidia customers,” and “we do not provide replacement products, service, or support to them.”
A Super Micro 
SMCI spokesperson said the company “does not conduct business with these entities,” and that it is “committed to complying with all applicable US export and re-export control laws and regulations.”
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