The Kimi K3 model, developed by Moonshot AI, has officially launched on Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s Amazon Bedrock platform. Under this arrangement, AWS will be responsible for model hosting, inference services, and billing processes, with both parties having mutually agreed upon commercial terms. Previously, while K3 was accessible through Microsoft Foundry, this was facilitated via a third-party route. Presently, K3 has also been seamlessly integrated into Alibaba Cloud's BaiLian platform.

Moonshot AI had engaged in negotiations with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—the triumvirate of major cloud service providers—with the aim of securing up to a 30% share of the revenues generated by K3 on their respective platforms. AWS has now pioneered the implementation of this innovative cooperation model. K3 has garnered AWS's endorsement owing to its distinct advantages, including the capability to process 1 million Token contexts, native visual processing abilities, and its distinction as the first explicitly open-weight model on the Bedrock platform to feature Prompt Caching.

Under the open-weight model framework, Moonshot AI retains the ability to levy charges on large Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms through licensing agreements. Additionally, Zhipu AI has also entered into revenue-sharing agreements with several prominent domestic and international cloud service providers. Its GLM series models are set to be introduced to overseas cloud platforms in the form of hosted APIs, with associated revenues slated to be recognized starting from October. Consequently, the company has upwardly revised its year-end Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) guidance.

Alibaba, too, is planning to adopt a similar revenue-sharing mechanism for its next-generation Qwen3.8-Max model. At present, Chinese model providers are successfully generating revenue through overseas cloud platforms, marking a departure from the previous model where platforms solely profited from model-driven traffic. Simultaneously, Chinese open-weight models have carved out a significant market share overseas, emerging as formidable competitors to leading U.S. model companies.