Keeping the upper hand in the AI arms race has become a vital goal for both the U.S. and China, and Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips are one of many flashpoints in that fight. But as we've discussed multiple times and then some more, Chinese AI firms are quite creative with workarounds for these restrictive policies. For inference work, Moonshot reportedly relies on Nvidia's China-market HGX H20, a last-gen chip that isn't blocked by trade laws on either side of the Pacific. Meanwhile, White House Director Michael Kratsios claimed last week in a tweet that that Moonshot AI both "acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand." While buying Blackwell chips is illegal, renting them is apparently fair game, at least until the proposed Remote Access Security Act takes effect.