ChainThink reports that, on August 26, sources familiar with the matter revealed that Moonshot AI is in discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google regarding revenue-sharing agreements to allow the three U.S. cloud giants to host its Kimi K3 model.
Moonshot seeks up to a 30% revenue share from services related to Kimi K3 on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, with terms substantially consistent with those offered to large customers using open-weight models.
Currently, Moonshot has signed similar agreements with some smaller cloud platforms. If negotiations are successful, this agreement could become the first significant model revenue-sharing partnership between a Chinese AI company and a major U.S. cloud provider.
Meanwhile, Alibaba is also seeking to establish revenue-sharing arrangements with its primary users of the new open-source AI model.
