China's Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, Trump tech adviser says - BBC
A White House adviser has accused Chinese firm Moonshot AI of stealing technology from Anthropic to develop its K3 model. The allegations also suggest Moonshot bypassed export controls to access restricted Nvidia hardware.
Why it matters
This incident escalates the ongoing tech war between the U.S. and China, specifically regarding AI development and semiconductor export restrictions.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Osmond Chia Business reporter Future Publishing via Getty Images 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 on Wednesday.
The BBC has contacted Moonshot, Anthropic, the White House, and Nvidia for comment.
sratsios 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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