A top White House official is escalating the fight over Moonshot AI's viral Kimi K3 model
A senior White House official has accused China-based Moonshot AI of stealing intellectual property from Anthropic to develop its Kimi K3 model. The official claims Moonshot used a sophisticated internal platform to perform large-scale data distillation against U.S. models to bypass detection.
Why it matters
This accusation marks a significant escalation in the geopolitical technology race, highlighting concerns over AI model theft and the security of open-source AI development.
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios escalated the administration's fight with China-based AI companies. Kylie Cooper/Reuters A top White House official said that Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic to build its Kimi K3 model . Michael Kratsios said the White House has information showing Moonshot AI distilled Fable. The comments are an escalation as the US responds to viral, China-based open-source models. A top White House official publicly accused Moonshot AI of essentially stealing from Anthropic, intensifying the debate over China-based open source AI models. "We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model," Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote on X Wednesday morning. We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.
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