Such activity requires feeding lots of cyber-related prompts (including offensive) to powerful models (at least Kimi K3-level). Such a possibility would be very useful to human cybercriminals, why would API providers allow this without KYC?
Because some people who own GPUs are outside of the jurisdiction of the United States, and are willing to sell access to their GPUs in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Which country in particular? In civilized countries local authorities will likely shut such operations down as soon as there is real damage from cybercriminals using it, failed states generally lack infrastructure to sustain them, and pariah states will control such GPUs as a national asset
My top guesses would probably be Russia, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Malaysia, Myanmar
But also literally any of the countries you see in the list of Vast instances available for rent. Currently, just looking at the first 1024 entries (because rate limit), that list is the US (439), Canada (102), China (58), Czech Republic (48), Germany (48), Sweden (34), Japan (32), Saudi Arabia (32), Bulgaria (31), Norway (31), Vietnam (19), Romania (17), South Korea (16), Denmark (16), Hungary (16), France (16), Iceland (16), Puerto Rico (15), Poland (15), United Kingdom (15), Finland (3), Spain (2), Hong Kong (1), Slovakia (1), Italy (1).
Hosted where?
Such activity requires feeding lots of cyber-related prompts (including offensive) to powerful models (at least Kimi K3-level). Such a possibility would be very useful to human cybercriminals, why would API providers allow this without KYC?
Because some people who own GPUs are outside of the jurisdiction of the United States, and are willing to sell access to their GPUs in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Which country in particular? In civilized countries local authorities will likely shut such operations down as soon as there is real damage from cybercriminals using it, failed states generally lack infrastructure to sustain them, and pariah states will control such GPUs as a national asset
My top guesses would probably be Russia, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Malaysia, Myanmar
But also literally any of the countries you see in the list of Vast instances available for rent. Currently, just looking at the first 1024 entries (because rate limit), that list is the US (439), Canada (102), China (58), Czech Republic (48), Germany (48), Sweden (34), Japan (32), Saudi Arabia (32), Bulgaria (31), Norway (31), Vietnam (19), Romania (17), South Korea (16), Denmark (16), Hungary (16), France (16), Iceland (16), Puerto Rico (15), Poland (15), United Kingdom (15), Finland (3), Spain (2), Hong Kong (1), Slovakia (1), Italy (1).