Kimi's compute crunch sparks debate: pessimist says no whale-style GPU deal, optimist cites $5B-$10B IPO
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-24
- The pessimist (teortaxesTex): Moonshot AI's trajectory looks bad — its models are too GPU-intensive, the company lacks compute now, and unlike DeepSeek it hasn't arranged whale-style access to future compute. No visible improvement between K3 and now.
- The optimist (zephyrz9): Writing off Kimi is premature. It has a sizable war chest, its IPO could raise $5B-$10B, and it can distill large models into smaller variants to ease compute pressure.
- He adds that financially, GLM (Zhipu) has the smallest war chest among Chinese labs.
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