# Compute Supply, Not Model Quality, Is Setting the Pace at Both American and Chinese Labs

OpenAI says it is turning down work for lack of capacity, Moonshot assembled training capacity for Kimi K3 across multiple clouds, and a Beijing bar gives away DeepSeek tokens from two desktop Nvidia machines.

- Published: 2026-08-20T06:25:18.874Z
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The phrase circulating among AI channels this week, posted in translation as "we are out of compute", matches what executives are saying on the record. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company will remain in a compute shortage regard…

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