White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing Anthropic Model

A senior White House official has accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of using distillation techniques to copy Anthropic's Fable model in developing its Kimi K3 system. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, claims Moonshot built a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large-scale distillation while evading detection. Experts are skeptical of the claims, noting Fable was only publicly available two weeks before Kimi K3's release, making such extensive distillation training implausible. Anthropic called the alleged practice IP theft and industrial espionage posing national security risks.