Moonshot’s latest Kimi model is so popular that the company just gated new users
THE SO WHAT
GPU scarcity is now a go-to-market constraint—Moonshot is trading short-term growth for service quality because demand outran capacity in 48 hours. If you're building on third-party models, assume rate limits and gating can hit without notice and design for multi-vendor or fallback options.
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