Kimi leader says China’s frontier AI work is constrained by severe GPU scarcity
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-21
The quoted remark says that after returning from the US and joining Kimi, the speaker told colleagues that frontier labs like OpenAI have access to thousands of GPUs, and people in China were shocked by how much compute those labs had. The message is that frontier innovation in China is much harder under severe GPU scarcity, even though the team is proud it still managed to push ahead.
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