Google Cloud Ships Day 0 Kimi K3 Support Days After the White House Accused Moonshot of Distilling Anthropic
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Google Cloud added Kimi K3 to Vertex Model Garden with Day 0 support, deployable on Nvidia Blackwell-based A4 and A4X VMs — announced days after OSTP director Michael Kratsios publicly accused Moonshot of using large-scale distillation to build K3 from Anthropic's models. Moonshot's open-weight license requires commercial cloud providers to pay to host Kimi, which is why Google's post thanks Moonshot for the partnership: a US hyperscaler is paying a Chinese lab for hosting rights on US chips for US customers. That combination is drawing explicit calls for it to be blocked and is the most likely trigger for the next export-control fight.