Amazon is negotiating a revenue-sharing agreement with Chinese firm Moonshot AI for its Kimi K3 large language model. Microsoft and Google are also in discussions to offer the model through their respective cloud platforms.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in July 2026 as one of the world's largest open-weights models. The model currently rivals top-tier performance from U.S. labs including OpenAI and Anthropic. Kimi K3 has already gained significant market traction and popularity within the United States.
The U.S. government is scrutinizing Moonshot AI over allegations of using American technology for development. These geopolitical tensions add complexity to the negotiations as Chinese AI models gain global influence.