China's Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, Trump tech adviser says
A US government adviser has accused China's Moonshot AI of stealing intellectual property from Anthropic through 'distillation' techniques. The allegations also suggest the company used restricted Nvidia chips to train its models.
Why it matters
This highlights the escalating geopolitical tensions regarding AI development, intellectual property theft, and the effectiveness of US export controls on advanced technology.
Image source, Future Publishing via Getty Images Image caption, Kimi K3 is an AI model developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI
A White House adviser has accused China's Moonshot AI of a "large scale" effort to steal the capabilities of top US artificial intelligence (AI) models.
US President Donald Trump's Science and Technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation - when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a stronger one.
Moonshot also gained access to restricted cutting-edge Nvidia servers to train its models, Kratsios said in a social post , external on Wednesday.
The BBC has contacted Moonshot, the Chinese embassy in Washington, Anthropic, the White House, and Nvidia for comment.
Kratsios said on X that the US government has information that Moonshot AI "distilled" capabilities from Anthropic's Fable AI for the development of its K3 model.
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