A lab offers US clouds 30% of revenue to host its open model

Claim

Since serving revenue flows to whoever runs open weights cheapest, Moonshot is offering US clouds 30% of Kimi K3 revenue to host it, despite Washington accusing it of distilling a US frontier model.

Reported metric: 30% of revenue

Reporting date: 2026-08-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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