Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
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Experts doubt that Chinese firm Moonshot used distillation of Anthropic's Fable to quickly build the advanced Kimi K3 model.Summary
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that Chinese company Moonshot built its powerful Kimi K3 open-weight model by illegally distilling Anthropic’s Fable LLM using restricted chips. However, AI experts are skeptical, noting that the timeline is too short for effective distillation of that scale and that Chinese engineering teams possess significant technical expertise. While distillation and the use of restricted hardware are common concerns in the AI industry, researchers emphasize that Kimi K3's advanced capabilities likely stem from rigorous training methods rather than simply copying U.S. models.
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