Military researchers distill foreign models into targeting systems

Claim

Chinese military researchers are distilling US models into surveillance and drone-targeting systems, a shortcut around chip controls, amid allegations that Moonshot runs on 20,000 Nvidia chips via Alibaba plus smuggled Blackwells and distilled outputs.

Reported metric: 20,000 chips

Reporting date: 2026-08-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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