{
  "id": 3473221,
  "title": "China's Moonshot AI negotiates Microsoft, Amazon, Google over Kimi K3 revenue sharing - report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/chinas-moonshot-ai-negotiates-microsoft-amazon-google-over-kimi-k3",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T09:22:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jerusalem Post Tech & Start-Ups",
    "slug": "jerusalem-post-tech-start-ups",
    "url": "https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-906633"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "China's Moonshot AI is engaged in revenue-sharing negotiations with US cloud giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, according to three sources familiar with the discussions. The talks aim to allow the US cloud companies to host Moonshot's Kimi K3 model, potentially marking the first significant revenue-sharing partnership between a Chinese AI firm and a major US cloud provider. The proposals could see Moonshot receiving up to a 30% share of revenue from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. This aligns with Moonshot's approach to major customers using its open-weight model, but the deals remain tentative at this stage and have not been confirmed by the companies. Moonshot has been criticized by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has suggested adding the company to a trade blacklist due to alleged violations of intellectual property rights linked to Anthropic's Fable model and Nvidia chip acquisition. Despite these concerns, Moonshot's Kimi K3 has demonstrated strong performance in third-party evaluations, outperforming models like OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 in complex, multi-step tasks. The startup, founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin and backed by major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, is preparing for a potential Hong Kong listing after raising over $2 billion in May. Moonshot has already established similar revenue-sharing arrangements with smaller cloud platforms like Chinasoft International.",
  "summary": "IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.",
  "key_points": [
    "China's Moonshot AI negotiating revenue-sharing with Microsoft, Amazon, Google.",
    "Moonshot could receive up to 30% of revenue from Kimi K3 services on cloud platforms.",
    "Moonshot's Kimi K3 outperforms GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus in complex tasks."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}