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

Moonshot AI, a Chinese lab accused by the White House of remotely accessing Nvidia's advanced Blackwell GPUs, has sought to lease Nvidia GPU capacity in European data centers to bypass U.S. export restrictions. These controls ban Nvidia's most advanced chips from China, but overseas cloud access remains a loophole. Moonshot aims to use this capacity for AI model inference and training, intensifying competition with U.S. AI developers.